BOYS WHO ARE NOT GIRLS BUT ARE PRETTY COOL ANYWAY
I live in a house of boys who love me unconditionally: Michael, Jude and Zain you are everything that is joy in my life even when some of you won’t go to bed so that I can finish my novel. For my dad and my brother, I love you. Luke Carman, what can I say? Thank you for holding on, thank you for holding on to me.
AND TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T WANT TO BE CATEGORISED
Faith Chaza I will always love everything you are and everything that you do even if you’re late getting it down on the page.
About Felicity Castagna
Felicity Castagna’s first novel for Young Adults, The Incredible Here and Now, received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature, was named the IBBY Honour Book for Australia and was a finalist for the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers. Her third book, No More Boats, was a finalist in the Miles Franklin Award and published internationally. Felicity has written for the stage and radio and her essays frequently appear in magazines and journals. She also loves creating cross-artform and collaborative work with other artists and has helped to make a lot of wild big things for many major festivals, art galleries and outdoor spaces. Outside of writing she teaches writing, talks about writing and helps to run a lot of storytelling, mentorship and art projects.
Also by Felicity Castagna
Small Indiscretions (Transit Lounge, 2011)
The Incredible Here and Now (Giramondo, 2013)
No More Boats (Giramondo, 2017: Europa 2019)
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First published 2021 in Pan Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
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Copyright © Felicity Castagna 2021
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This is a work of fiction. Characters, institutions and organisations mentioned in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously without any intent to describe actual conduct.
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