The End of the World is Bigger Than Love, the new title by award-winning Australian author Davina Bell, about two identical sisters who live alone on an island together. It reflects something of our difficult times with an innocence and lightness that belie underlying loss and grief.
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Summary
The End of the World is Bigger Than Love, the new title by award-winning Australian author Davina Bell, about two identical sisters who live alone on an island together. It reflects something of our difficult times with an innocence and lightness that belie underlying loss and grief.
Description
‘To be aware of the risks and wade in anyway – that is life, dear Summer. Your glass-bottomed boat may crack. But to have sailed it and seen into the soul of another realm. Isn’t the wonder worth it?’Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days reading and rereading their mother’s collection of classic literature – until the arrival of a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality.At first, Edward is a welcome distraction. But who is he really, and why has he come? As love blooms and the world stops spinning, the secrets of the girls’ past begin to unravel and escape is the only option.A sumptuously written story of love and grief; of sisterly affection and the ultimate sacrifice; of technological progress and climate catastrophe; of an enigmatic bear and a talking whale: The End of the World Is Bigger than Love is unlike anything you’ve heard before.
Awards
Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Older Readers 2021 Short-listed for Queensland Literary Awards 2021
About the Author
Davina Bell is an award-winning author of books for young readers of many ages. She writes picture books (including All the Ways to be Smart and Under the Love Umbrella), junior fiction (Lemonade Jones) and middle-grade fiction (the Corner Park Clubhouse series). Davina lives in Melbourne, where she works as a children’s book editor. Sophie Loughran is a NIDA graduate whose performing career spans musical theatre, voiceover and audiobook narration. Sophie’s voiceover journey began at Southern Cross Austereo working on the street team for Fox FM and Triple M. She has since lent her voice to over 16 fiction and non-fiction audiobooks for Bolinda Audio including Australian titles like Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor, The Codebreakers by Alli Sinclair and The Most Important Job in the World by Gina Rushton. International titles include The Shot by Naima Brown and When She Was Gone by Sara Foster. Sophie has also worked on voice over campaigns for clients such as City of Melbourne, Starbucks and MARS.
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