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Nova Weetman lives in Melbourne with her family. She has written for TV and is the author of many middle grade and young adult novels. The Secrets We Keep was shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards and the ABIA Awards, and was named a CBCA Notable Book. The sequel, The Secrets We Share, was a 2018 CBCA Notable Book and won the KROC Kids Reading Oz Choice Awards, NT – Best Fiction for Years 7 to 9. It was also shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Nova’s middle grade novel Sick Bay was a CBCA Notable Book, was shortlisted for the ABIA Awards and Japan’s Sakura Medal, and won the YABBA Awards Fiction for Years 7–9. In 2022, The Edge of Thirteen won the ABIA Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year and was a CBCA Notable Book. In 2023, The Jammer was shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children and was a CBCA Notable Book. Nova’s latest book is the adult memoir Love, Death & Other Scenes.
