Author(s): Brian Falkner
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 224
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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Date Published: 2017-07-03
Dimensions: 130 x 195 x 19mm
Publication City/Country: St Lucia, Australia
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A boy helps his sister disguise her birthmark on her first day of school. A seventeen-year-old awakens to find himself trapped in an elderly body.A teenage girl discovers her boyfriend has a life-threatening virus the day after they share their first kiss.A high school student tries to communicate to his hospitalised brother who is in a vegetative state. Brian Falkner serves up bite-sized tales of fear - fear of rejection, fear of dying, fear of disease, fear of the unknown, fear of exclusion, fear of being caught and fear of embarrassment - showing how that stubborn seed of hope hungers our darkest moments.