Beautiful new Australian fiction
This is a powerful debut novel from an Australian author, and the winner of the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. The Minnow is strange and beautiful and difficult to categorise. It has a young narrator with an old voice, and a plot shaped by grief and a teenage pregnancy. I thought this might be depressing, but its not Tom is knowing and pragmatic, and her observations often wryly funny. Her conversations with fish and her dead grandfather lend the book a surreal, dream-like aspect. I was moved both by the story and the writing. Besides that, the cover is just gorgeous Recommended with extreme fondness. Reviewed by 33as.
Amy, 23/08/2014
