The Sky So Heavy

by Claire Zorn

  Finally, thank you Mr Ghetzzi for teaching me that words on a page can have an extraordinary affect on their readers’ lives. And for making me read Heart of Darkness.

  I’LL TELL YOU MINE

  Pip Harry

  Kate Elliot isn’t trying to fit in.

  Everything about her – especially her goth make-up and clothes – screams different and the girls at her school keep their distance. Besides, how can Kate be herself, really herself, when she’s hiding her big secret? The one that landed her in boarding school in the first place. She’s buried it down deep but it always seems to surface.

  But then sometimes new friends, and even love, can find you when you least expect it.

  So how do you take that first step and reveal yourself when you’re not sure that people want to know the real you?

  ‘I loved it. It has three of my favourite ingredients: boarding school, great characters, and a lot of heart.’ Melina Marchetta

  ‘What an angst-ridden, passionate and funny story!’ Good Reading

  ‘A beautiful debut told in a crisp, clear voice by an author who has expertly captured the struggle to find your identity, fall in love, and survive high school.’ Viewpoint

  ISBN 978 0 7022 3938 0

  First published 2013 by University of Queensland Press

  PO Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia

  www.uqp.com.au

  uqp@uqp.uq.edu.au

  © Claire Zorn 2013

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  Cover design by Jo Hunt

  Cover photographs by iStockphoto and Dreamstime

  Typeset in Adobe Garamond 12/16pt by Post Pre-press Group, Brisbane

  Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group

  Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  National Library of Australia

  Zorn, Claire, author.

  The sky so heavy / Claire Zorn.

  ISBN 978 0 7022 4976 1 (pbk)

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5140 5 (epdf)

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5141 2 (epub)

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5142 9 (kindle)

  Nuclear winter – Juvenile fiction.

  A823.4

  University of Queensland Press uses papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.