AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.”
'Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing. As disturbing memories resurface, Tash starts to see Sparrow again. And she realises Mallory is the key to unlocking the truth about a dark secret connecting them. Does Sparrow exist after all? Or is Tash more dangerous to others than she thinks?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
-
In 2020, it was announced that Triptych Pictures would adapt the novel, with a script by Shelly Lauman.
Affiliation Notes
-
Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Mutism (traumatic). Type of character Secondary. Point of view Viewed in third person by first-person narrator.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also dyslexic edition
Awards
- 2020 winner Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature — Young Adult Fiction
- 2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Young Adult Book Award
- 2019 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2019 winner Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2019 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers