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Emily Brewin is a Melbourne author, copywriter and learning designer. Her novels, Hello, Goodbye (2017) and Small Blessings (2019) are published with Allen & Unwin. Her first young adult novel is due for release with MidnightSun Publishing in April 2024.
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Emily Brewin is a Melbourne author, copywriter and learning designer. Her novels, Hello, Goodbye (2017) and Small Blessings (2019) are published with Allen & Unwin. Her first young adult novel is due for release with MidnightSun Publishing in April 2024.
‘A gritty and moving novel about a vulnerable young woman’s
capacity to endure, and to find courage, despite the shocking
dysfunction in the lives of those she depends on.’
Ingrid Laguna,
award-winning writer of Kit and Arlo
Coming in April 2024!
A WAY HOME
by Emily Brewin
PB 224 | 198 x 129
ISBN: 9781922858382 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | 15 April 2024
Distributed by NewSouth Books
AGE GUIDE: 13+
Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s
cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home
When winter drives her to the City Library one morning, Grace
meets Louie, a weird kid with his own problems, and discovers
a community piano. The piano reminds Grace of her mum, a
celebrated pianist whose mental illness makes life a rollercoaster –
and not always a fun one.
When Grace comes up with a plan to find the help she and Mum
need, life begins to look up. But things don’t work out as Grace
imagines and suddenly her world’s turned upside down again, and
maybe for good this time.
A Way Home is a big-hearted novel that explores the complexities of
growing up with a parent who is struggling, and about the places
and people we call home.
‘A page-turning, gritty story full of hope and compassion. The writing is
assured and gripping, and Grace is a memorable and compelling character,
beautifully realised. A Way Home is a riveting story of resilience and hope
against the odds, both insightful and heartbreakingly real’
Mark Smith, award-winning author of the Winter Trilogy
Small Blessing
Through the unlikeliest of friendships comes a second chance
by Emily Brewin
Brewin reminds us we shouldn’t take anything for granted, and that change is always possible.’ KYD on Hello, Goodbye
Small Blessings is a poignant and uplifting tale of secrets, motherhood, innocence and heartache, and ultimately what we’re willing to do for love.
‘a powerful debut that will capture your heart…’ Sam Still Reading on Hello, Goodbye
Rosie Larson doesn’t trust people – and with good reason. Her violent ex-boyfriend, Joel, is out of jail and she’s determined he won’t find her or their eleven-year-old son.
For Isobel Hutchins, the cost of success is beginning to prove too high. Her impressive career and comfortable lifestyle can’t protect her from the news her mother is dying or the need to face her past.
When tragedy strikes, Rosie and Isobel are thrown together despite their differences. In this difficult space, they draw strength from each other and form an unlikely friendship that may just see them through.
Small Blessings is a poignant and uplifting tale of secrets, motherhood, innocence and heartache, and ultimately what we’re willing to do for love.
Hello Goodbye
by Emily Brewin
Hello, Goodbye is her first novel. Her second, Small Blessings, is due for release with Allen & Unwin in February 2019.
She has been awarded an Australian Society of Authors Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship for her fiction writing, and has been shortlisted for Hachette Australia’s Manuscript Development Program and Varuna’s Publisher Introduction Program. She was recently awarded a 2018 Moreland writer’s residency and a 2018 Bundanon Trust artist residency to develop her third novel, The Piano.
conspiracy
It's 1968 and free-thinking country girl May Callaghan's world is turned upside down when she finds out she's pregnant to her boyfriend Sam, who is awaiting draft orders. A profoundly moving story of love during a time of great social change, with an ending that will leave you cheering.
Her devoutly religious mother and her gentle but damaged father are fighting, and May’s boyfriend, Sam, has left their rural hometown for Melbourne without so much as a backward glance.
When May lies to her parents and takes the train to visit Sam at his shared house in Carlton, her world opens wide in glorious complexity. She is introduced to his housemates, Clancy, an indigenous university student, and Ruby, a wild bohemian. With their liberal thinking and opposition to the war in Vietnam, they are everything that May’s strict Catholic upbringing should warn her against.
May knows too well the toll that war has taken on her father, and the peace movement in the city has a profound effect on her. For a while, May’s future burns bright. But then it begins to unravel, and something happens to her that will change her life forever.
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined
Emily Brewin
From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can’t keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy caught up in a robbery to a girl desperate to save a failing greyhound, the characters who populate this short story anthology could have dropped straight from a Nick Cave song book. These 21 stories, from some of Australia’s favourite creators, respond to Cave’s visionary genius with their own original and unsettling tales of death, faith, violence and love.
We'll Stand In That Place and Other Stories
Emily Brewin
In this year’s annual Margaret River Short Story Competition, contemporary concerns, such as climate change, cultural inclusiveness and the need for queer spaces, are explored and a spotlight is shone on the complex emotions that we sometimes fail to honour in our daily lives and close relationships.
This year’s winner is Kit Scriven, from Victoria. Second prize was awarded to Catherine Noske, from Western Australia. The southwest prize was won by Rachel McEleney.
Bristol short story prize anthology volume 10
Emily Brewin
The 10th Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology brings together an inspiring collection of engrossing stories by 20 scintillating writers from around the globe.
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