"I had the idea for Words a long time ago, it was a matter of a few things falling to place, life got in the way a little too, and I had to work out the exact story. Her last book, Graffiti Moon, published in 2010, won a Prime Minister's Literary Award, a NSW Premier's Literary Award and was an honour book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. And I thought if I missed one of those quotes someone else would have pulled the book out and found it in there."Ĭrowley took a long time to write Words in Deep Blue. Read it.' Cath Crowley, author of Words in Deep Blue 'This is not a book it is a work of art. It was a lovely idea, pulling out a book and finding a quote in there. BookPage (starred review) 'Deeply moving.A story of hope.' Common Sense Media 'This book will explode you into atoms.' Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels 'Helena Foxs novel delivers. "She hid messages in books in the State Library for me to find, that kind of thing. "And for my 40th birthday a friend organised this big search across Melbourne for me," Crowley says. A niece lent her a copy of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars with margins crammed with comments and exclamation marks. One night she was reading an old copy of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire where she found notes had been made by two people.
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