Book description
Blue Noise is about people letting you down, how to survive your family
and the amazing thrill of making music with your friends. Ash is
drooling over his favourite guitar - the one he can't afford - when he
meets Charlie Novak. One jam session later and Charlie convinces Ash to
play in his band. But it'll never work. Bands never do. Erin is
wandering down a corridor at school - overthinking things as usual -
when she runs into Charlie. Literally. The guy is a fruit loop with his
weird hair and hyperactive rantings. When Charlie invites her to be the
band's keyboard player, Erin can't get a word in to say no. She's a
classical pianist. It'll never work. But maybe this time things will be
different. Maybe blues music is just what Ash and Erin need. Debra
Oswald is a writer for film, television, stage, radio and children s
fiction. Her novels for teenagers include Getting Air and Blue Noise,
and her children s novels include The Redback Leftovers, Me and Barry
Terrific, The Return of the Baked Bean and The Fifth Quest. Her plays
include Gary's House and Sweet Road, which were shortlisted for the NSW
Premier s Award. Her best known play, Dags, has been performed in
Britain and the United States. In 2008 Stories in the Dark won Best Play
in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Debra s television credits
include Police Rescue, Palace of Dreams, Bananas in Pyjamas and The
Secret Life of Us. She is creator and head writer of the Channel 10
drama series Offspring, for which she won a NSW Premier's Literary Award
in 2011. Debra lives in Sydney with her husband and two sons.
