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'''I'm not about to attack," she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her fringe. Her eyes were dark and already she was playing some kind of game with me, or that's how it seemed. Her voice was a little deeper and huskier than I might have expected, so her last line had come out with a hint of something that might have been menace or even seductiveness or just a pitch at adult banter. Whatever it was, it stuck with me and it punctuated the moment and it didn't feel quite right for a conversation with a schoolgirl on my doorstep."
With his chart-topping band, Butterfish, Curtis Holland lived the cliched rock dream. Residing in hotels and recording studios, travelling in custom-built buses, he got married after a soundcheck in a wedding chapel in Nevada and barely noticed when his wife left him in Louisville.
But no dream lasts forever.
'When Annaliese Winter walks down Curtis Holland's front path, he's ill-prepared for a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who's a confounding mixture of adult and child.
He's back in Brisbane trying to build a life and he is not used to having a neighbour at all. So when Curtis receives an invitation to dinner from Annaliese's mother, Kate, he is surprised when he not only accepts but finds himself being drawn to this remarkably unremarkable family. Even to fifteen-year-old Mark who is at war with his own surging adolescence.
Curtis soon realises that with Kate divorced, Annaliese and Mark need a male role model in their lives, but it's hard for him to help when he's just starting to grow up himself and harder still when Annaliese begins to show an interest in him that is less than filial.' (Publisher's blurb)
Adaptations
- The True Story of Butterfish 2009 single work drama
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Chosen as the July 2009 selection of The Courier-Mail Big Book Club.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
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Element of Truth in Novel
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Turning an Ear to the Music of Despair
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— Appears in: The Age , 4 July 2009; (p. 29)
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Fiction Books
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Muddled Blokes All Grown Up
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The Collector
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27-28 June 2009; (p. 12-16) 'After more than a dozen novels, there is so much of Brisbane in Nick Earl's fiction that it's hard to know where he draws the line between fact and fantasy. Or crosses it...' -
I'm with the Band...in a Novel Way
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— Appears in: The Age , 14 July 2009; (p. 18) -
Element of Truth in Novel
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— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury , 11 July 2009; (p. 20) -
The Reluctant Lad
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