I'm very excited to be helping launch Christopher Currie's first Young Adult novel, Clancy of the Undertow, at Avid Reader bookshop on Friday, December 4! (Not this Friday, the one after.*)If you a) live in or near Brisbane and b) love YA (or just novels in general, really), you should come! This is what Clancy of the Undertow is about:
Awkward, titless, something approaching hopeless. That’s how Clancy describes herself. Harsh. But in a town like Barwen you only have to be a little different to feel like a freak. And Clancy, with a moderately dysfunctional family, a genuine interest in Nature Club and a major crush on the local hot girl, is packing a capital F.
As the summer begins, Clancy’s dad is involved in a road smash that kills two local teenagers. While the family is dealing with the reaction of a hostile town, Clancy meets someone who could possibly - at last - become a friend. Not only that, the unattainable Sasha, by far the coolest person in town, starts to show what may be a romantic interest.
In short, this is the summer when Clancy has to figure out who the hell she is.
For more info and to RSVP (which you should - book launches are an A+ way to spend your Friday night), head to the Avid Reader website!
(And for more info on the book, check out the publisher's website. HOW GREAT IS THE COVER.)
*Assuming you are reading this around the time I am posting this. If it is 5000 years in the future and you are a robot cataloguing the internet, you have missed the book launch. I am sorry, future robot.
*Assuming you are reading this around the time I am posting this. If it is 5000 years in the future and you are a robot cataloguing the internet, you have missed the book launch. I am sorry, future robot.
