![]() 'I don't know whether it was icy weather or the sheer emotional tension of the story, but the night I stayed up to finish Friday Brown I was shivering. Vikki lives in the Adelaide foothills with her family. Her new novel, Inbetween Days, will be published in October 2015. Among other awards, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Prime Minister's Awards, 2013. Friday Brown was also an Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia, 2013. Vikki Wakefield's first young adult novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, as did her second novel, Friday Brown, in 2014. She will learn that sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started - and often, before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you were never meant to be. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. ![]() And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run, running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. Friday Brown is the breathtaking second novel from the author of the award-winning All I Ever Wanted.Ĭhildren's Book Council of Australia Honour Book, 2013 ![]()
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