LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
June 2024 Book of the Month
This is a warm, surprising, quirky, yet real and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. It’s a coming of age tale of Frankie Parsons, a twelve year old boy (who thinks and acts much older) who worries incessantly about everyday life and the eccentric family around him. His new friend - colourful, creative, talkative Sydney - has relentless, unavoidable questions of her own that force Frankie and his family to face up to things that have lain dormant for years.
Kate de Goldi has written a tender and endearing story that will break your heart and make you laugh in almost equal measure and the final icing on the cake - the quality of the writing is quite sublime. It also has great crossover appeal to an adult audience plus it’s a great book for members of a family to enjoy together.
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The 10pm Question Synopsis
Winner, Book of the Year in both Young Adult and General Fiction categories in the author’s native New Zealand.
A warm, surprising, witty and intelligent novel you will fall in love with.
Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head:Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms? Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it? Is the Kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer? Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent queries.
But it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unraveling of Frankie Parsons's carefully controlled world.
First published in the UK in 2010, this is a book whose preoccupations resonate even louder over a decade later.
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9781910646946 |
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6th June 2024 |
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Kate De Goldi |
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Old Barn Books |
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Paperback |
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Kate De Goldi Press Reviews
'A perfectly crafted novel, funny, compassionate, rich in characters. Hot damn (it also has great swear words), it’s good.' – The Daily Telegraph
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About Kate De Goldi
Kate de Goldi lives in New Zealand. She has won a number of accolades for her fiction, including the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and the Esther Glen Medal. Her book Clubs, illustrated by Jacqui Colley, won Book of the Year in the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2005. The 10pm Question was a number one bestseller in New Zealand, a White Ravens 2009 selection as an Outstanding New International Book for Children and Young Adults, and the winner of the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards. In 2001, Kate was made a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate.
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