Award-winning author Shivaun Plozza offers an affecting coming-of-age story for the ‘post truth era’.
Twelve-year-old Dell is smart and sensible and loves measuring the weather in Tully, North Queensland (home to the famous 1966 ‘Tully saucer nest’) where she lives with her dad and three sisters. Her mum abandoned the family five years ago, compelled to chase UFOs, crop circles and extraterrestrials. Dell is hurting, with anger trapped inside her head and heart (‘… I don’t know how to turn the storm inside me into words’). Now mum’s back in town and Dell’s on a mission to prove a hoax.
Beautifully profound metaphors help readers swirl with Dell’s world of rain, clouds and mountains; light, stars and sky; cane toads, centipedes and fire ants; trickery, lies and deception; heartbreak and disappointment; truth, trust and acceptance.
Running in Circles explores the complexities of family and relationships with emotional depth, compassion and understanding.
Reviewed by Mark Parry
Age Guide 11+
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shivaun Plozza is the award-winning author of Frankie, Tin Heart, The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars, A Reluctant Witch’s Guide to Magic, Meet Me at the Moon Tree, The Worst Perfect Moment and Summer of Shipwrecks. Her writing has been shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the Queensland Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Gold Inky Award. She won the Davitt Award for Best Young Adult Crime Novel in 2017. She lives in Geelong with her cat, Fenchurch. Running in Circles is her latest book.
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