OUR HOPELESS, HOPEFUL WORLD

A novel about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma and love that explores the stories we suppress and the stories we speak - and the healing that comes when we voice the things we've kept quiet for so long.

George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George's past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under.

Everything is a blaring, blazing mess. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George's world and shot it through with brilliant, dazzling colour, be her calm among the chaos?


WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS ETHEL TURNER PRIZE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE 2024
SHORTLISTED QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY YOUNG ADULT BOOK AWARD 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR OLDER CHILDREN (AGES 13+) 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASLA DANZ CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT NOVELS 2025


PRAISE FOR THE QUIET AND THE LOUD

'A writer to be reckoned with' Kathleen Glasgow