Brooke Davis
Författare till Lost & Found
Om författaren
Brooke Davis was born in Bellbrae, Victoria, Australia. She holds a Bachelors of Communication (Honours), Professional Writing and Media Production from the University of Canberra and a PhD in Creative Writing from Curtin University of Technology. Her debut novel Lost and Found was awarded the ABIA visa mer General Fiction Book of the Year, the Matt Richell Award for New Writer, and the 2016 WA Premier's Book Award for WA Emerging Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Födelsedag
- 1980-07-07
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Australia
- Födelseort
- Bellbrae, Victoria, Australia
- Bostadsorter
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Utbildning
- Wilfred Laurier University
Curtin University (PhD|Creative Writing|2013)
University of Canberra (BA|2004) - Yrken
- travel writer
editor
bookseller
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- Verk
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 460
- Popularitet
- #53,419
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 40
- ISBN
- 39
- Språk
- 7
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
Davis spins her story by shifting the focus between her main characters (other than Manny; sadly we never learn his opinions on life) and revealing their individual stories. Agatha and Karl combine to help Milly track down the mother who has abandoned her. They head from Perth to Kalgoorlie to catch up with her in Melbourne; I’m still not sure why they would do that.
The book is amusing and original, but I kept getting the feeling I was in a Wes Anderson film script. In the end I didn’t like it that much. I think I would give it four stars, except that I found Agatha a really obnoxious and off-putting character and her every appearance annoyed me. I think Davis was trying to engender some sympathy for Agatha, but she fails to do so - the character is just too much of a grotesque.… (mer)