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'Eleven year old Oscar Flowers is on a quest to make sense of the strange world of adults that surrounds him in the seaside town of Tidetown. The bizarre behaviour of his parents and great aunt impels him to search for the blue tiger, a powerful and beautiful animal that will save his family from themselves. Mrs April, the town's librarian, helps Oscar in his pursuit of knowledge and generously shares her great love of books with him. A deep and wondrous friendship develops. Yet as Oscar falls under the influence of his peers, the fishmonger's peculiar twin daughters, Perch and Carp, he becomes embroiled in a dark crime of vengeance with seemingly disastrous consequences.
'Hugely positive and an imaginative tour de force In Search of the Blue Tiger is at once a celebration of books and reading, an affecting love story between a widowed town librarian and a lonely troubled child and a gripping testament to the way that any of us can move beyond the mistakes of our past to a new beginning.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: With love, as always, to my father and mother, Richard and Beatrice, and to my three sons, Tom, Dominic & Louis.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Well Read
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 February 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Literary
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 April 2012; (p. 15)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 30)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
A Child's Fractured World
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 March 2012; (p. 25)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Tiger Tales
Joy Lawn
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2011/12 vol. 91 no. 6 2011; (p. 41)
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[Review] In Search of the Blue Tiger
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2011/12 vol. 91 no. 6 2011; (p. 33)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
A Child's Fractured World
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 March 2012; (p. 25)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 30)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Literary
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 April 2012; (p. 15)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Well Read
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 February 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 single work novel -
Tiger Tales
Joy Lawn
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2011/12 vol. 91 no. 6 2011; (p. 41)