Golden Boys

Author(s): Sonya Hartnett

Australian Fiction

With their father, there's always a catch....


Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts--toys, bikes, all that glitters most--and makes them the envy of the neighborhood.


To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family from a magazine, and Rex a hero--successful, attentive, attractive, always there to lend a hand. But to Colt he's an impossible figure in a different way: unbearable, suffocating. Has Colt got Rex wrong, or has he seen something in his father that will destroy their fragile new lives?


 


Product Information

Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.

Sonya Hartnett's work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year (Of A Boy), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Thursday's Child), the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost's Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for both Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal (The Midnight Zoo). Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008). In 2014, Hartnett published a new novel for adults, Golden Boys, and her third picture book, The Wild One. True Stories: Close to Home featuring Sonya Hartnett

General Fields

  • : 9780143572831
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : Penguin
  • : January 2016
  • : February 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sonya Hartnett
  • : Paperback