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Harvey's dads are splitting up. It's been on the cards for a while, but it's still sudden. Woken-by-his-father-to-catch-a-red-eye sudden. Now he's restarting his life in a new city, living above a cafe with the extended Greek family he barely knows. Sotiris is a rising star. At seventeen, he's already achieved his dream of publishing a novel. When his career falters, a cute, wise-cracking bookseller named Jem upends his world. Harvey and Sotiris's stories converge on the same street in Darlinghurst, in this beautifully heartfelt novel about how our dreams shape us, and what they cost us. No library descriptions found. |
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Sotiris is 17 and has just had his first book published but instead of being on top of the world, a mistake means he loses the plot and it is not until he meet Jem that life begins to look up.
The reader then discovers that Sotiris ( who becomes Sam Baker for later version of the book) and Jem are actually Harvey's Ba and Dad, and Sotiris has left Jem because he is trying to write the story of them and can only do so when he is away from Jem.
The whole book itself is then semi-autobiographical of Will K ( i.e. gay Greek boy) so the reader can see bits of Will K's life in both the story of Harvey and Sotiris.
Was engrossing but somewhat unresolved at the end. I felt the book just stopped. Great writing and wonderful descriptions of the Sydney cafe life. ( )