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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Hothouse Flowers
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'Axel has seen too much, but he can't think about that now. If he does, the image of his mother and the broken glass will loop through his brain over and over again. He thinks if he can just keep quiet, no one will see that life for the fourteen-year-old boy living alone with his senile great-grandmother is slowly falling apart.

'Rose has left school; and her mum and dad; and the counsellors; and the concerned way they all have of looking at her as if they were trying to peer right through her. She is looking for signs and signals when she sees the boy perched on the cliff top looking like he might jump. And he is definitely the message.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 1997 .
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      Extent: 178p.
      ISBN: 020719159X

Works about this Work

Fragile Selves : Constructing Identity in Novels by Margaret Clark, Nette Hilton and Isobel [sic] Carmody Richard Rossiter , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 14 no. 1 2004; (p. 34-39)
Untitled Anne Briggs , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 12 no. 5 1997; (p. 37-38)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 33-34)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 5 no. 4 1997; (p. 47)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel
Sensitive Story About Teenage Suicide Stephen Matthews , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 1997; (p. 18)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel ; Greylands Isobelle Carmody , 1997 single work children's fiction ; Slow Burn Victor Kelleher , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 33-34)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Anne Briggs , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 12 no. 5 1997; (p. 37-38)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel
Sensitive Story About Teenage Suicide Stephen Matthews , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 1997; (p. 18)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel ; Greylands Isobelle Carmody , 1997 single work children's fiction ; Slow Burn Victor Kelleher , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 5 no. 4 1997; (p. 47)

— Review of Hothouse Flowers Nette Hilton , 1997 single work novel
Fragile Selves : Constructing Identity in Novels by Margaret Clark, Nette Hilton and Isobel [sic] Carmody Richard Rossiter , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 14 no. 1 2004; (p. 34-39)
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