Annabel Smith
Auteur de Whiskey and Charlie
A propos de l'auteur
Annabel Smith is the author of Whiskey Charlie Foxtrot which was chosen as the April 2015 pick for the Target Book Club in the U.S. Her other title, New Map of the Universe, was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Book Awards. She holds a PhD in Writing from Edith Cowan University. She has been writer afficher plus in residence at Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre and the Fellowship of Australian Writers. She had short fiction pub;lished in Westerly. In 2012 she was selected by the Australia Council as one of 5 inaugural recipients of a Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging Artists, for the creation of an interactive app to accompany her esperimental speculative fiction The Ark. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Annabel Smith
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- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Études
- Edith Cowan University (PhD|Writing)
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Whiskey and Charlie par Annabel Smith
I LOVED this book! I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. For the love of siblings!
rabck from spoiledrotten; also have kindle; Whiskey and Charlie are twins & when they were boys, they got a walkie-talkie set and taught the radio code (we know it as how pilots talk), But as they grew up, they had a falling out. Whiskey was the daredevil and Charlie the staid one & one time Whiskey pushed his weight around too far. But then Whiskey has a terrible accident and is in a coma for months. Will he live or die? And can Charlie figure out how to forgive?
This was a book I never would have picked up on my own in a million years, so I'm really glad it was sent as part of the round robin book club that I'm part of. I was pleasantly surprised by this! I really liked how the book was framed by the radio alphabet, from chapter titles to plot points. It was nifty and as I'm someone who doesn't read chapter titles, was a revelation when I got to the end and Smith kind of held your hand to that conclusion (for dopes like me, I guess).
I admit that I almost gave up mid-way through because I just did not like Charlie. I thought he was a whiny, woe-is-me, self-sabotaging ass. This was not wrong. But it's a redemption story. I appreciated that he wasn't perfect by the end of the book, but he was trying.… (plus d'informations)
I admit that I almost gave up mid-way through because I just did not like Charlie. I thought he was a whiny, woe-is-me, self-sabotaging ass. This was not wrong. But it's a redemption story. I appreciated that he wasn't perfect by the end of the book, but he was trying.… (plus d'informations)
A little bit of a slow start but once it picked up I couldn't put it down.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 227
- Popularité
- #99,086
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 21