Catch a Falling Star
$17.60
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2023
Summary
A fifteen-year-old reaches for stardom as he slides into psychosis in this multiple-award-winning novel for teens.
Francesca – known to everyone as Frankie – has scored the part of Princess Fiona in the forthcoming musical production. Even though Jamie Orange has missed out on the part of Shrek, he’s happy: “The day I found out I was a donkey was one of the best days of my life.” He may not be Frankie’s leading man on stage, but he can still try to win her heart.
However, all …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776953400 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776953401 |
| Author: | Eileen Merriman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 21mm |
About The Author
Eileen Merriman
Eileen Merriman’s first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying- ‘Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.’ In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy. In 2024, Merriman’s compelling Catch a Falling Star, which depicts a 15-year-old spiralling into a mental health crisis, won both the New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award and NZ Booklovers’ Best Young Adult Book. Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.
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