![]() ![]() ![]() * Adelaide Advertiser * A book that intrigues and affects every essence of your humanity. Laguna's great skill is in conveying the contradictory human depths in all her characters. * Sydney Morning Herald * Jimmy is a tour de force of a character, brilliantly maintained. Laguna has vividly brought to life what it must be like to be a different child and the effect his condition can have on a family. Emily Macguire * Canberra Times * A beautiful, sombre style, relieved by occasional happy-go-lucky moments and strangely surprising resilience. Unique, forceful and absolutely hypnotic. Louise Swinn * The Weekend Australian * Harrowing, beautifully written, insightful and absorbing. Laguna is an author proving the novel is a crucial document of the times. It is quite a feat to write characters with such nuance. * Irish Times * A book that crosses the boundaries of adult and YA fiction. ![]() As a "domestic" novel, it could be cliched, but Laguna, through Jimmy's wonderful eyes, makes every sentence, every word, sing and soar. It is outrageous that someone as young, beautiful and - goddamit - as happy looking as Sofie Laguna has written this wee beauty of a novel. ![]()
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