The Brisbane author has crafted a compelling coming-of-age story set in a dead-end Queensland town that’s embued with warmth, empathy and real wit
Brisbane bookseller Christopher Currie, whose first novel The Ottoman Motel was award-nominated several times over, notes in the acknowledgements to his new novel, Clancy of the Undertow, that his publisher acted “not at all surprised when I brought her a YA [young adult] book instead of the two other serious adult books I had promised her”.
Implicit in his comment are all the issues the YA debate has raised over the past few years, particularly: what defines a book as “young adult” and what defines the readers of such titles?
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