City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Skimming stones, Maria Papas

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fiction

Skimming stones

Maria Papas

Winner of the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Skimming Stones is about the bond forged by two teenagers hovering on the periphery of their siblings' illness and it captures some of those unseen long-term changes wrought in families affected by cancer. The novel is told from the perspective of Grace, a nurse, who runs into Nate, a boy whose family lived nearby. The connection they had as teenagers - both helpless witnesses to the progression of their siblings' leukaemia - is reaffirmed in adulthood and a new love story between them begins. This is a novel of affirmation and resilience

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