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  Butterfly (Hamish Hamilton) (Paperback) By (author) Sonya Hartnett

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  Short Description for ButterflyGrowing up during the 1980s in the safe complacency of the Australian suburbs, Plum Coyle is on the cusp of her fourteenth birthday. So when Plum's glamorous next-door neighbour Maureen, a young wife and mother, befriends Plum, Plum responds with worshipful fervour. But Maureen has an ulterior motive for taking Plum under her wing.
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  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
  • Published: 02 April 2009
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780241144466 ISBN 10: 0241144469
  • Sales rank: 197,549

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  ChrysalisBook rating: 4

  This is my first tast of Sonya Hartnett's talents, and while I wasn't knocked-out-wowed, I was certainly impressed with the opening and scene setting. (As I get older I'm certainly loving books set in 80's suburban Australia.) Hartnett's strengths, in this book at least, are descriptive and emotional - the details (Cydar's fish tanks, the smells and plant life of summer in suburbia) are wonderful, but she tries to squeeze in a whole other story about pubescent girls and the horror of school, and while this is a worthy subject, it seems to get a bit of short shrift in 'Butterfly'. It seems as though it should be either a much longer work that continues into Plum's out of high school years, or just an evocative short story, but falls between the two and is just slightly disappointing. Definetly worth a read, but feel that Hartnett has much bigger tricks awaiting. by Jayne

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