- Title:
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Butterfly
- Written by:
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Sonya Hartnett
- Read by:
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Rebecca Macauley
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 36 minutes
- Published:
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February 01 2009
- Available Date:
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February 01 2009
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742018652
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010
"Hartnett's prose is breathtakingly good."
The Big Issue
"Full of insight and wit."
The Guardian
A gripping tale by one of Australia's finest writers.
Growing up during the 1980s in the safe complacency of the Australian suburbs, Plum Coyle should be happy. But on the cusp of her fourteenth birthday - and on the fringe of her peer group - she lives in terror of the disapproval of her cruel and fickle girlfriends and, most of all, she hates her awkward, changing body with a passion.
So when Plum's glamorous next-door neighbour Maureen, a young wife and mother, befriends Plum, Plum responds with worshipful fervour. Plum feels herself reinvented. With Maureen, she becomes the girl she's always wanted to be. But Maureen has an ulterior motive for taking Plum under her wing...
"Rich, visceral ... Harnett's tiny domestic insights unleash a tornado of human experience."
The Herald Sun
"Lucid and beautiful, compassionate yet unflinching, enigmatic yet touching, sometimes tragic sometimes funny, this is a memorable novel by a writer at the height of her powers."
The Weekend Australian