Book 2007

The anatomy of wings

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Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Language: English
Published: 2007

Children's fiction
Suicide, fiction
Australia, fiction
Family life, fiction
Sisters, fiction
Grief, fiction
Suicide victims
Family relationships

Jennifer Day is ten-years-old, and her elder sister, Beth, has committed suicide. As she tries to piece together the last year of Beth's life, she reflects on her sister's fragility, her slide into bad company, her under-age drinking and under-age sex, Jennifer also begins to understand something of the secret world of teenagers.