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Surviving life with lost kids in outback Australia.

Recommended for readers who enjoy realistic coming-of-age stories with a strong sense of place and atmosphere. Friday Brown is a beautifully written novel that explores themes of loss, identity, and belonging. The characters are complex and relatable, and the outback setting is vividly portrayed. The plot is gripping and suspenseful, with unexpected twists and turns. Overall, Friday Brown is a powerful and emotionally resonant book that will stay with readers long after they finish it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Friday Brown

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ISBN: 9781471401350
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Date of Publication: 2013-07-04
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Contemporary, Drama
Goodreads rating: 3.87
(rated by 1672 readers)

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They call me Friday. It has been foretold that on a Saturday I will drown ...

Friday Brown was saved by Silence. Brought up travelling the endless roads of the Australian wilds, Friday's past was shaped by stories, told dreamily by her mother around glowing campfires and on the edge of endless plains. But her mother's death left Friday lost, and running from a family curse that may or may not be real. Desperate and alone in the middle of a strange city, a voiceless boy with white-blond hair and silver eyes appeared from nowhere, stole her heart and took her home.

Friday is welcomed by a strange gang of lost kids and runaways. Led by the beautiful but fearsome Arden, the group live an underground life in the city, begging, stealing and performing to keep themselves alive. But when Silence returns to the house covered in someone else's blood and terrified, the gang escape to an outback ghost town, leaving everything behind. Murungal Creek is abandoned, desolate and full of empty promises. Life in Arden's gang starts to unravel, and the anger, lies and deceit that have been hidden for so long start to float to the surface. Having been swept along by the currents of life for as long as she can remember, Friday suddenly finds herself struggling to stay afloat, and alive. As devastation threatens, Friday must face up to her past, and fight, for the first time in her life.
From the winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, 2012, FRIDAY BROWN is a remarkable story, described by the Weekend Australian as a story with 'characters so palpable you can imagine passing them in the street.'


Author: Vikki Wakefield
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Publication Date: 04 Jul 2013
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Surviving life with lost kids in outback Australia.

Recommended for readers who enjoy realistic coming-of-age stories with a strong sense of place and atmosphere. Friday Brown is a beautifully written novel that explores themes of loss, identity, and belonging. The characters are complex and relatable, and the outback setting is vividly portrayed. The plot is gripping and suspenseful, with unexpected twists and turns. Overall, Friday Brown is a powerful and emotionally resonant book that will stay with readers long after they finish it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.