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 is the winner of numerous awards

This book has been graded for interest at 15-18 years.

There are 204 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 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.