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'It will be about birth and death and love and sex, and I will tell it very quiet and slow, so if you want big bangs of action and excitement it's best you stop reading right now. I will make it something after my own heart, tender and dark, a little candlelight novel, started this late summer night as my lover and baby daughter sleep in the big bed in the corner, and my sister Kate leans thoughtful and sleepless against the railing of the dark verandah outside ... So writes Sophie O'Farrell, 22 year-old single mother, university student, reader, writer. She pushes her baby through the streets of Lismore, remembering, meeting people, observing the beauty and ugliness of everyday life, falling in love, and finally, telling all.'--Provided by publisher.
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[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 17 no. 1 2009; (p. 33)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel My Candlelight Novel is the follow-up to Joanne Horniman's previous novel Secret Scribbled Notebooks, the story of two sisters, Kate and Sophie who have grown up with Lil, 'their adoptive guardian since they were abandoned by their father when they were young'. The first book was narrated by Kate while this story is told from the perspective of Sophie, a 21 year old single mother whose relationship to literature allows her to 'explore life and connect to a world outside of her immediate and often dull existence'. According to Fulcher, this is a 'sophisticated novel that frankly explores the beauty and sorrow of an examined life' and elevates 'ordinary life to the same beauty and standing usually reserved for brilliant works of art' (33). -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 53 no. 1 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 3 2008; (p. 63)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 23 no. 4 2008; (p. 42)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 October 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel
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[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 1 2008; (p. 48)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 October 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 23 no. 4 2008; (p. 42)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 53 no. 1 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel -
[Review] My Candlelight Novel
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 17 no. 1 2009; (p. 33)
— Review of My Candlelight Novel 2008 single work novel My Candlelight Novel is the follow-up to Joanne Horniman's previous novel Secret Scribbled Notebooks, the story of two sisters, Kate and Sophie who have grown up with Lil, 'their adoptive guardian since they were abandoned by their father when they were young'. The first book was narrated by Kate while this story is told from the perspective of Sophie, a 21 year old single mother whose relationship to literature allows her to 'explore life and connect to a world outside of her immediate and often dull existence'. According to Fulcher, this is a 'sophisticated novel that frankly explores the beauty and sorrow of an examined life' and elevates 'ordinary life to the same beauty and standing usually reserved for brilliant works of art' (33).
Awards
- 2009 longlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
- 2009 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Young Adult Book
- 2009 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
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