Dancing Barefoot
$26.76
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2022
Summary
Evie Vanhoutte is a teacher’s pet, a basketball star, and the most beautiful girl in the year level. Evie Vanhoutte is tall, has long dark hair, a great smile, and for the past four years, Evie Vanhoutte has been the object of my most ardent, heartfelt, and passionate affection. Unrequited affection, of course.
Patch is out of place at Mountford College—she wears the wrong clothes, she’s not sporty or popular, she lives in a small flat above her dad’s record shop, a world away from th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922458711 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922458716 |
| Author: | Alice Boyle |
| Publisher: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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‘I loved everything about Dancing Barefoot –its strong characters, its laugh-out-loud moments and its irresistible narrative voice that engaged me from the first page.’
*Dancing Barefoot brings a warm and uplifting queer contemporary romance to the #LoveOzYA, #AusQueerYA and #OwnVoices scenes. Winner of the 2021 Text Prize, Alice Boyle’s debut novel follows Patti ‘Patch’ Smith (yes, named after the punk rock legend) as she finds herself, finds her voice, and finds romance. As the bookish, (closeted) lesbian, scholarship kid, Patch has managed to make just one friend, Edwin, in her four and a half years at Mountford College. She also has one bully, Abigail, and one longstanding, unrequited crush, Evie, champion of the basketball team. All this starts to change, however, after an unfortunate encounter with Abigail leaves Patch with a ruined uniform, and Evie comes to the rescue. Dancing Barefoot* is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a romance-tension and reader investment are maintained throughout as Patch navigates changing and competing priorities. The climax is unsurprising but satisfying, and the characters are a queer hipster’s dream-Patch lives above her dad’s record shop on Sydney Road in Brunswick; her best friend is affirming his gender (with no transphobia, gatekeeping or waitlists in sight); her little brother watches musicals on repeat; and there’s an abundance of references to niche music and queer icons. For fans of Fiona Wood, Emily Gale and Sophie Gonzales, *Dancing Barefoot *is suited to readers aged 14 and up seeking a contemporary, feminist, urban-Australian romance, and/or those seeking comforting queer representation with a pop culture twist. Jordi Kerr is a freelance reviewer and youth literature advocate, and a support worker for the queer community.
About The Author
Alice Boyle
Alice Boyle is an English teacher and author living in Naarm/Melbourne. She has written for SBS Voices and the Stella Prize, and her short story ‘The Exchange’ was published in the Black Inc. anthology Growing Up Queer in Australia. In 2019 she was highly commended for the Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program, and in 2021 she won the Text Prize for her debut novel Dancing Barefoot.
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