Matt had loved Emmy, with her freckled, luminous, magical body; he had loved the way she hadn't given a damn for anything, the way she had climbed onto the roof of the church tower and kissed and kissed him. The way she'd fallen into the river just to know what it felt like. He had loved the way she had said to her parents, 'We'll just love it, okay?'He remembered how they had believed that loving Mahalia would be enough.

 

This book was recognised in the Book of the Year category by the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. It was recognised by the Older Readers.

There are 204 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Allen & Unwin .

JOANNE HORNIMAN has been a kitchenhand, waitress, editor, teacher and screen printer. She now writes full-time in a shed overlooking Hanging Rock Creek near Lismore, northern New South Wales. Her novels include Mahalia, Little Wing and A Charm of Powerful Trouble. My Candlelight Novel, told by Sophie O'Farrell, follows on from the story told by Sophie's sister Kate in Secret Scribbled Notebooks.