A Place Like This
by Steven Herrick

A special reissue of a bestselling Australian classic from award-winning author Steven Herrick.

A$19.95

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Overview

Jack and Annabel have been dating for two years. With high school over they’re about to start university – until Jack decides to chuck it all in.

I think you and Annabel should get out of here

as fast as possible. Have a year doing anything

you want. My going-away present is enough money

to buy a car – a cheap old one, okay? You’ll have to

work somewhere to buy the petrol, and to keep going.

But go.

No destination in mind, Jack and Annabel leave town and discover themselves in a place they never knew existed.

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Awards

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Oz Books 4 Teachers

‘Beautifully crafted using the sparse descriptive language now synonymous with Herrick.’

Australian Book Review

‘A story as crisp and fresh as an apple, as sweet and sharp as life itself.’

Diva Booknerd

‘A lovely exploration of family, free spirit and the love that unites us.’

Steven Herrick

Steven Herrick is the author of twenty-five books for children and young adults. His books have twice won the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and have been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards on nine occasions. In 2019, his bestselling young adult novel, The Bogan Mondrian, was shortlisted for CBCA's Book of the Year: Older Readers Award and the Queensland Literary Awards - Griffith University Young Adult Book Award. His latest novel, How to Repaint a Life was shortlisted for the 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Older Readers. He is widely recognised as a pioneer of the verse-novel genre for young adults. He is also the author of six travel books. He spends nine months of the year visiting schools in Australia and three months on his bicycle, travelling around, pedalling slowly and thinking about his next book.