Eighty-Nine Questions for After by Ashleigh Barton - ISBN: 9780733654596
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Germophobe seeks answers, finds life’s true questions at a hospice.
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Eighty-Nine Questions for After

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    28 July 2026

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Summary

A wise and beautifully written middle-grade novel about finding answers to the big questions in life from popular children’s author Ashleigh Barton.

Ester Star is a germophobe and hypochondriac and she’s convinced she’s going to die. To prepare for her imminent and inevitable demise, Ester keeps a list of all the questions she hopes to have answered in the afterlife - things she knows she’ll never have the answers to during her lifetime. What really happened to the dinosaurs? Just…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780733654596
ISBN-10:0733654592
Author:Ashleigh Barton
Publisher:Hachette Australia
Imprint:Lothian Children's Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:28 July 2026
Weight:300g
About The Author

Ashleigh Barton

Ashleigh Barton is a children’s author and copywriter. Before writing full time, she pursued her love of books (children’s books especially) by working in some of Australia’s biggest publishing houses, running marketing and publicity campaigns for globally renowned authors and illustrators.

Ashleigh is the author of eight successful and highly acclaimed picture books and two junior fiction series. She has been recognised on the CBCA Notables and/or Shortlist in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Her picture book Dinosaur in My Pocket was a 2025 CBCA Notable Book. In 2025 Ashleigh published her acclaimed middle grade fiction book How to Sail to Somewhere and her picture book Hedgehog or Echidna?.

Ashleigh lives in Sydney with her husband, three children and their dog.

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