Eddy, Eddy

Rowena (Bookseller) web research found a wonderful Starred Review from the US based Kirkus Review book journal. It's always exciting to see Author's gain international recognition for novels based in Aotearoa NZ.

to visit the 2024 Starred Review by kirkusreviews.com

A soulfully layered story told with wit and care. - Kirkus Review

2023 Finalist Young Adult Fiction Award

to visit nzbookawards.nz for 2023 Shortlist Book Awards Children & Young Adult

to visit RNZ Saturday Morning interview with Kate De Goldi

Reviewed by Karen (retired Bookseller) Loved this book, set in Christchurch, two years after the devastating major earthquakes.

Teenage Eddy is finding his way to adulthood, dealing with grief, loss, friendship, love & religion. Encircled by a cast of extrodinary characters human & animal.

A coming of age novel for older teens & adults, a dazzling, hilarious , spirited, sensitive & insightful read.

Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexpected form.

As Eddy navigates his way through the Christchurch suburbs to Christmas, juggling competing responsibilities and an increasingly noisy interior world, he moves closer and closer to an overdue personal reckoning.

a richly layered novel, deftly written with humour and pathos: a love story, peopled with flawed and comical characters, both human and animal; and a story of grief, the way its punch may leave you floundering - and how others can help you find your way back.

Loosely mirroring A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, revels in language's stretch and play, the blessings of story and songs, and the giddy road to adulthood.

Fiction: general and literary

Paperback

Kate De Goldi

288 pages

H: 234mm W: 153mm

Weight: 386 grams