Born: Established: 1973 ;
Gender:
Female
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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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The Wintrish Girl
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2022
24687456
2022
single work
children's fiction
children's
fantasy
'On Talisman Day in the Province of Arylia, all children receive powerful objects that change their lives forever. All children except for the Wintrish servant girl Penn, that is.
'Bound to the spoiled Princess Seraphine since birth, Penn has never known her true family. While she longs to return to her own Province of Midwinter and find them, she knows that all her future holds is a lifetime of loneliness.
'But a long-forgotten evil is stirring, and destinies are about to change …
'When the Princess is kidnapped, Penn is forced to run for her life to clear her own name. With the help of some unexpected friends and a dragon with a fear of unicorns, she faces deadly peril and formidable foes. But can one ordinary Wintrish girl save the day?
'Because without a Talisman, there’s no changing your fate – is there?' (Publication summary)
- 2024 winner The DANZ Children's Book Award — Middle Grade
- 2023 shortlisted Readings Prizes — The Readings Children’s Book Prize
- 2022 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Children's Division
- 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
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Serendipity
Camberwell
:
Viking
,
2007
Z1353044
2007
single work
novel
romance
humour
'Hero Hathaway likes her life ordered, neat. Perfect. So how does she end up in a Manhattan bar, downing cocktails and masquerading as fearless trapeze artist Lola? Not to mention flirting with the charmingly unpredictable bartender, Oscar Martin. Sparks fly, but when Hero panics and runs away, it's the end of the affair - until she bumps into Oscar in Sydney, two years later. Oscar is determined to win Hero back. She is equally determined not to be won: she knows, beyond doubt, that they're hopelessly mismatched. Fate, however, has other ideas ...' - Cover.
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The Wish List
Camberwell
:
Penguin
,
2005
Z1178611
2005
single work
novel
romance
'Who says a modern girl can’t believe in fairytales?
'Scatty, funny and smart, Lucy is a hopeless romantic. With an unshakeable faith in happy endings, she drives her friends Meg and Chloe crazy as she tries time and again to make her best friend Tom fall in love with her.
'Then Lucy meets the man of her dreams – or so it seems – and must finally decide whether true love is fact, fiction, or something in between.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Last amended 17 Jun 2005 14:12:40
