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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, Eddy, Eddy is 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.
Eddy, Eddy is 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, Eddy, Eddy 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