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Holier Than Thou
Author(s): Laura Buzo (Author)
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin Children's Books
- Publication Date: 8 Oct. 2015
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 1743366809
- ISBN-13: 9781743366806
Book Description
‘What do you want, Hol?’ Abby looks into my eyes. ‘I … I want to know that I’m using my powers for good and -‘ ‘You want to make a dead man proud.’ ‘Whoa!’ ‘You want to put bandages over severed arteries that really need to be sewn shut. You want the moral high ground.’ Holly Yarkov has a boyfriend who is a gift from the universe. She has a job that fulfils her even as it wears her down. She has a dangerously appealing co-worker, who literally plays with fire. And she has a layer of steel around her heart that is beginning to tarnish. Just as she is reaching for a future she can’t quite see, Holly finds her present invaded by the past, by memories of her father’s death and of her once best friend, the boy-who-never-was. Grief and longing run like veins of quicksilver through this beautiful novel, which is at once gloriously funny and achingly sad.
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About the Author
Laura Buzo is a social worker with a young daughter. Her first novel, Good Oil, was published in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. This is her second novel.
