A Little Spark
Aug 2022 · Allen & Unwin
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From the bestselling multi-award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear comes another CBCA Notable middle fiction novel that is warm, upbeat, intriguing and wholly absorbing.
NOTABLE BOOK: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers
SHORTLISTED: 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weekends with Dad. It would be giving them tickets into that world. The world Dad and I have created. And I don't want to do that. It's ours. It's all we have. It's all we've been allowed since my parents got divorced.
Cate gets to spend every second weekend with her dad, and each time something special and surprising happens. Something that fires the creative spark that Cate channels into her writing.
And everything is fine until Cate's stepdad, Sam, gets offered his dream job in London and her mum decides they are going to move to England with him
Cate must decide what she wants for herself. She loves both her parents - but she must choose between them.
A warm and funny novel full of unexpected twists and turns, joy and heartbreak.
NOTABLE BOOK: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers
SHORTLISTED: 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weekends with Dad. It would be giving them tickets into that world. The world Dad and I have created. And I don't want to do that. It's ours. It's all we have. It's all we've been allowed since my parents got divorced.
Cate gets to spend every second weekend with her dad, and each time something special and surprising happens. Something that fires the creative spark that Cate channels into her writing.
And everything is fine until Cate's stepdad, Sam, gets offered his dream job in London and her mum decides they are going to move to England with him
Cate must decide what she wants for herself. She loves both her parents - but she must choose between them.
A warm and funny novel full of unexpected twists and turns, joy and heartbreak.
About the author
Barry Jonsberg has won numerous awards for his books, both nationally and internationally. He has been published in twenty countries and translated into many languages. In 2019 his bestselling novel, My Life As An Alphabet, was made into an award-winning film, H is For Happiness, released throughout the world to great critical acclaim. The same production company is now working on an adaptation of his novel Catch Me If I Fall.
Barry lives in Darwin, in the Top End of Australia, with his wife Anita and his crazy dog, Zorro.
Barry lives in Darwin, in the Top End of Australia, with his wife Anita and his crazy dog, Zorro.
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