by Darren Groth
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Darren Groth is the author of six novels, including Kindling and the acclaimed YA novel Are You Seeing Me?. He was the winner of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Literature and has been a finalist in numerous other prestigious prizes including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (Australia), the Governor General’s Literary Awards (Canada) and the Sakura Medal (Japan).
Darren is a former special-education teacher and the proud father of a son with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For fun, he watches Game of Thrones with his beautiful Canadian wife and eats Fatburger with his wondrous sixteen-year-old twins. He lives in Vancouver.
ARE YOU SEEING ME?
BY DARREN GROTH
Justine and Perry are embarking on the road trip of a lifetime. It’s been a year since they watched their dad lose his battle with cancer, leaving nineteen-year-old Justine as the sole carer for her disabled brother. Now, the twins’ reliance on each other is set to shift. Before they go their separate ways, they’re seeking to create the perfect memory.
For Perry, the trip is a glorious celebration of his favourite things: mythical sea monsters, Jackie Chan movies and the study of earthquakes.
For Justine, it’s a chance to ‘free’ her twin, to see who she is without her boyfriend, Marc – and to offer their mother the chance to atone for past wrongs.
But the instability that has shaped their lives will not subside, threatening to reduce their world to rubble …
‘A funny and beautiful story about love, life and other disasters. Just wonderful’ – Michael Gerard Bauer, author of The Running Man
‘We all need to spend some time inside this story’ – Nick Earls, author of 48 Shades of Brown
OUT NOW
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Exchange of Heart
ePub ISBN – 9780143781561
First published by Random House Australia in 2017
Copyright © Darren Groth, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Creator: Groth, Darren, author
Title: Exchange of heart/Darren Groth
ISBN: 978 0 14378 156 1 (ebook)
Target audience: For young adults
Subjects: Australian fiction
Young adult fiction
Cover images: heart by SIM VA/Shutterstock.com, van by jekson_js/Shutterstock.com
Cover design by Christabella Designs
Ebook by Firstsource
