Book description
A novel about losing your home and finding your family, from the
award-winning Australian author of Walking Naked and Finding GraceSee,
what happened was, our lives were going really well. My mum got a
promotion, I enrolled in an A-list school, and then my Dad had this
great idea to start an empire. But now he's 'gone to the country'. What
does that mean? Is it the same place they take old, sick dogs? Has he
joined a cult? It's been two months now, and I still don't know what it
means. Declan, the boy next door, says that my dad's in hospital, but
everyone's dying as far as Declan is concerned. Now there are strange
people living in our spare rooms, and all my stuff is on the lawn. I've
tried to raise it with my mum, but she talks to me as if I am a
four-year-old - when she talks to me at all, which is less and less
lately. Hello! Can somebody please tell me what's going on? Alyssa
Brugman has written five books about Shelby and her pony, Blue: For Sale
Or Swap, Beginner's Luck, Hot Potato, Hide & Seek And Greener
Pastures. This series has been shortlisted for a number of Children's
Choice awards and was also selected for the 2007 'Books Alive' campaign.
Alyssa's young adult novels Finding Grace, Walking Naked, Being Bindy
and Solo have been shortlisted for numerous awards in Australia and
overseas. Alyssa has also written Book Two of the new Quentaris series,
The Equen Queen. Alyssa lives in the Hunter Valley.
