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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Twitcher
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'Grief, loss and guilt are enormous burdens for a whole family to carry. A tern will fly to the moon, to live its life in summer...I suppose I'd like to have a little bit of that. It's boom time in sixteen-year-old Kenno's coastal holiday town. Tourists are buying and building and developing property, and easy money seems to be everywhere. Even birds flock there to nest on the sand and on the cliffs, out to the islands. But for those who live in the holiday town all year round, there is bleakness too, and Kenno's family, haunted by a terrible loss, struggle to get by. When the family is evicted from their home, Kenno figures they're entitled to a little easy money of their own, and that it's his job to makes things right. Believing it could go a long way to healing them in all their separate ways. Kenno finds a beautiful house and forms a plan to get the money for it. But the closer he gets to the money, the more complicated things become, and when he involves his sister in his plan, who likes to test the world and goes looking for danger, things move quickly beyond his control.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For my sisters, Christine, Karen and Mandy,

    with love

  • Epigraph:

    'In a chance observation, the German

    zoologist Gustav Kramer noticed that the

    way a bird positioned itself in its cage

    indicated the direction in which it would

    migrate if it were free...

    -Tim Birkhead, The Wisdom of Birds

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2013 .
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      Extent: 291p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 01/03/2013
      ISBN: 9781864711165 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Well Read Katharine England , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 March 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Twitcher Cherise Saywell , 2013 single work novel
A Lofty Symbolism Amid Social Division and Seabirds Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 March 2013; (p. 30-31) The Saturday Age , 23 March 2013; (p. 34) The Canberra Times , 23 March 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Twitcher Cherise Saywell , 2013 single work novel
Review : Twitcher Tony Birch , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , May 2013;

— Review of Twitcher Cherise Saywell , 2013 single work novel
A Lofty Symbolism Amid Social Division and Seabirds Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 March 2013; (p. 30-31) The Saturday Age , 23 March 2013; (p. 34) The Canberra Times , 23 March 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Twitcher Cherise Saywell , 2013 single work novel
Well Read Katharine England , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 March 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Twitcher Cherise Saywell , 2013 single work novel
Review : Twitcher Tony Birch , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , May 2013;

— Review of Twitcher Cherise Saywell , 2013 single work novel
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