- Title:
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Burning Eddy
- Written by:
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Scot Gardner
- Published by:
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
- Published:
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February 01 2005
- Read by:
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Stig Wemyss
- Number of CDs / Tapes:
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6
- Duration:
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5 hours 45 minutes
- MP3 size:
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- Genre:
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General
- Available Date:
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February 01 2005
- ISBN:
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174094836X
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781740948364
- BAB:
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Qty
Format
Price
Bolinda price
About this book:
Shortlisted Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award 2004: Older Readers.
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Award 2004 (Ethel Turner Prize for Books for Young Adults).
General fiction. 'Get a life, Fairy.’ In the country, where his fifteenth summer has burned the life from the grass, Daniel Fairbrother is searching. Looking for something that will make tomorrow seem worth the effort. Something that will fix the rot in his family tree. He works in the Dutch woman’s garden. Eddy’s eighty-six. She can read Daniel’s mind. She has a tattoo, a history, and can make music with her farts. In a shady corner of Eddy’s garden, Daniel finds something growing … Hope. But something is burning.
“Burning Eddy is a poignant story about growing up, about family and about friendship. Absorbing.” — Aussie Reviews
Reviews
Daniel Faibrother tells the story of his fifteenth summer in Australia’s drought-ravaged bush. Searching for something to make life meaningful, Daniel finds 86-year-old Eddy. He begins doing Eddy’s gardening, and from her he learns about morality and what is truly important in life. As performed by Stig Wemyss, Daniel grows from a boy with dark family problems into a young man with a more mature, realistic outlook. Wemyss gives Dan a wet-behind-the-ears enthusiasm and brings a crusty eccentricity to Eddy. As Dan sorts thing out, Wemyss occasionally sounds too ingenuous, but overall his performance of Gardener’s exploration of adolescence guarantees that teens will recognize themselves and learn a few things about the ways of the world. AudioFile Magazine
AudioFile Magazine [Dec 05]