Talia is sixteen, pregnant and angry. Her family is broken. She’s looking after her unwell mother. Her dad’s gone. At school she is shunned. And Johnny—the one person she thought she could count on—just walked away.
Johnny is Barkindji, smart and confused. He’s struggling with the weight of his parents’ expectations: he wants to please them, but is the future they’ve planned for him the one he really wants? He makes a decision he knows he’ll regret: leaving Talia behind.
But some love—no matter how impossible—never lets go.
Forever & Ever is a gritty, heart-wrenching love story set in a Murray–Darling river town simmering with deep-seated prejudice and long-buried secrets.
andForever & Ever
‘An evocative and gutsy new voice.’
‘A devastating exploration of first love, loss and the perilous work of growing up…. Readers who loved Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give will appreciate the unflinching examination of cultural identity and racism, while fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars will recognise first love with devastating stakes.’
