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The Memory Shell
Weighed down by family tragedy, Hannah's parents have been suffocating her with rules and restrictions - which only drive her to more reckless behaviour.
How can she make them understand that their anxieties are ruining her life?
But when Hannah and her parents go to their beach house in Jamaica Lane, it's time to confront the memories and make some difficult choices.
How can she make them understand that their anxieties are ruining her life?
But when Hannah and her parents go to their beach house in Jamaica Lane, it's time to confront the memories and make some difficult choices.
186 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Alison Stewart
26 books40 followersAlison has had nine books published - two books for adults and seven for young people. Four of them have been translated into Italian, Danish, Dutch and Thai.
Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian Multicultural Children’s Award and was a 1995 Children’s Book Council Notable book.
Her YA dystopia, Days Like This, published by Penguin Australia was a finalist in the inaugural 2010 Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the YA category.
Alison lives in Sydney and is married with two adult children. When she gets the chance, she loves travelling - who doesn't? Alison worked for years as a news and feature journalist. She currently writes travel stories.
Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian Multicultural Children’s Award and was a 1995 Children’s Book Council Notable book.
Her YA dystopia, Days Like This, published by Penguin Australia was a finalist in the inaugural 2010 Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the YA category.
Alison lives in Sydney and is married with two adult children. When she gets the chance, she loves travelling - who doesn't? Alison worked for years as a news and feature journalist. She currently writes travel stories.
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January 14, 2013
Love this book and have read it several times and got as much enjoyment out of it every read!
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