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Sugar

Carly Nugent

  • awardWinner, Best Designed Young Adult Cover, Australian Book Design Awards, 2023
  • awardShortlisted, Young Adult Literature, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2023
  • awardShortlisted, Griffith University Young Adult Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards, 2022
  • awardShortlisted, Book of the Year for Older Children, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2023
  • awardShortlisted, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2023
  • awardLonglisted, Young Adult, Indie Book Awards, 2023
  • awardCommended, Young Adult, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2023
  • What’s yours is yours for a reason. Luck has nothing to do with it.

    Some people get exactly what they deserve. And, as it turns out, I deserve to be called Persephone. No simple-to-sound-out Pride-and-Prejudice-style name like Elizabeth or Jane for me. Nope. Demi had to go Greek. Define Persephone. Bringer of destruction. That pretty much sums it up.

    Persephone is angry. Angry that her life revolves around finger-prick tests, carbohydrate counts and insulin injections. Angry at Alexander Manson. Angry with her mum for lots of things, for nothing and for everything.
    But most of all, she’s angry with herself. For deserving it all. Because one year ago she did something and her dad died.
    But then Persephone finds a body on a bush path, a young woman she doesn’t know but feels a strong connection to. And as she tries to find out what happened to Sylvia, Persephone begins to understand her own place in the complex interconnectedness of the universe.

    Sugar is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl trying to make sense of the life-changing events that have sent her world into a spin, her search for a reason behind it all, and ultimately her acceptance of life’s randomness.

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    Carly Nugent
    About the Author

    Carly Nugent lives in Bright in Victoria. Her short fiction has featured in numerous publications, including the Bellevue Literary Review and Award Winning Australian Writing. Her first novel, The Peacock Detectives, won the Readings Children’s Book Prize, was a CBCA Honour Book, and was shortlisted for the Text Prize, the Australian Book Design...

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    Extent:
    368pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    29 March 2022
    ISBN:
    9781922330741
    AU Price:
    $19.99
    NZ Price:
    $24.00
    Reading age:
    16+
    Australian
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    Praise for Carly Nugent
    andSugar

    Sugar is dark, hopeful, mesmerising—an extraordinary novel that builds and breaks like a perfect storm.’

    ‘A deeply affecting novel about loss, guilt and the fraught search for truth and certainty; the passion and ferocity of this story will stay with me for a long time.’

    ‘Approaches tender topics with unflinching courage and aplomb.’

    ‘Beautifully written, heartfelt and with a forward momentum that keeps you turning the page, this novel about loss, guilt and anger is ultimately hopeful and an absolute triumph.’

    ‘Nugent’s shrewd tale of a young woman weighed down by chronic illness, struggling to make sense of a nonsensical universe, is ultimately heart-warming.’

    ‘A story full of ’tude, and plenty of layers to peel back and get you thinking.’

    ‘Exquisitely written…A work of dazzling clarity and finesse that demonstrates the literary virtuosity that critics often claim is missing from books for this age group.’

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    • Sugar
      ebook
      ISBN: 9781922459183
      29 March 2022
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