Cloudwish

Author: Fiona Wood

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  • : $17.00 AUD
  • : 9781925483581
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
  • : September 2016
  • : 16.99
  • : September 2016
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Barcode 9781925483581
9781925483581

Description

Award-winning author Fiona Wood delivers a thought-provoking story of self-discovery and first love-one that will resonate with anyone who has ever realized that the things that make you different are the things that make you...you.


 


For Vân Uoc, fantasies fall into two categories: nourishing or pointless. Daydreaming about attending her own art opening? Nourishing. Daydreaming about Billy Gardiner, star of the rowing team who doesn't even know she's alive? Pointless.


 


So Vân Uoc tries to stick to her reality-keeping a low profile as a scholarship student at her prestigious Melbourne private school, managing her mother's PTSD from a traumatic emigration from Vietnam, and admiring Billy from afar. Until she makes a wish that inexplicably (possibly magically) comes true. Billy actually notices her. In fact, he seems to genuinely like her. But as they try to fit each other into their very different lives, confounding parents and confusing friends, Vân Uoc can't help but wonder why Billy has suddenly fallen for her. Is it the magic of first love, or is it magic from a well-timed wish that will eventually, inevitably, come to an end?

Awards

2016 Indie Book Awards Winner (Young Adult)


2016 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers

Author description

Fiona Wood has been writing television scripts for more than ten years. Her second YA novel, Wildlife, won the 2014 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers. Cloudwish is her third novel. She lives in Melbourne with her family.