Dianne L. Touchell Dianne L. Touchell i(A81051 works by)
Gender: Female
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y separately published work icon Forgetting Foster Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2016 9510271 2016 single work novel young adult

'The powerful story of a young boy whose father develops Alzheimer's disease, from the highly acclaimed author of A Small Madness.

'Foster suddenly recognised the feeling that rolled over him and made him feel sick. It was this: Dad was going away somewhere all on his own. And Foster was already missing him.

'Foster Sumner is seven years old. He likes toy soldiers, tadpole hunting, going to school and the beach. Best of all, he likes listening to his dad's stories.

'But then Foster's dad starts forgetting things. No one is too worried at first. Foster and Dad giggle about it. But the forgetting gets worse. And suddenly no one is laughing anymore.

'A heartbreaking story about what it means to forget and to be forgotten.' (Publication summary)

2017 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adults' Fiction
2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
y separately published work icon A Small Madness Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8215320 2015 single work novel young adult

'A devastating, compelling novel that will get everyone talking, from the author of Creepy and Maud.

'Rose didn’t tell anyone about it. She wondered if it showed. She looked at herself in the mirror and turned this way and then that way. She stood as close to the mirror as she could, leaning over the bathroom basin, looking into her own eyes until they disappeared behind the fog of her breath, looking for something. Some evidence that she was different now. Something had shifted inside her, a gear being ratcheted over a clunky cog, gaining torque, starting her up. But it didn’t show. How could all of these feelings not show? She was a woman now but it didn’t show and she couldn’t tell anyone.' (Publication summary)

2016 longlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2016 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2016 selected White Ravens
y separately published work icon Creepy & Maud North Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2012 Z1887550 2012 single work novel young adult 'Hilarious and heartbreaking, Creepy & Maud charts the relationship between two social misfits, played out in the space between their windows.

'Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly.

'Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures her isolation.

'Together Creepy and Maud discover something outside their own vulnerability — each other's. But life is arbitrary; and loving someone doesn't mean you can save them.

'Creepy & Maud is a blackly funny and moving first novel that says; "You're ok to be as screwed up as you think you are and you're not alone in that."' (From the publisher's website.)
2013 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2013 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
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