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Stay Well Soon
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From CBCA shortlisted author, Penny Tangey, comes a moving, funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story.

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Overview

Stevie wants a pony or a horse more than anything. She dreams horses, draws horses and follows the girls at school who have horses hoping that one day she will have her own horse too.

But money doesn’t grow on trees and Stevie’s mother is a single mum looking after two kids and holding down a job. Some dreams seem far away when you are vacuuming, hanging out washing and going to school. Stevie has to learn to straighten out the hard things herself. Her mother is worried about her sick brother and her Dad Ben is working up north leaving Stevie rudderless in this family going round in circles. Reading between the lines, Stevie suddenly has to learn a lot about growing up.

A beautiful novel about the fine line between life and death.

Details
Penny Tangey, author of Loving Richard Feynman, Stay Well Soon, As Fast As I Can, and Clara in Washington
Photo by Penelope Claire

Penny Tangey

Penny Tangey writes humorous books for young people. Her most recent book, As Fast As I Can, won the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021 and The Griffith University Children's Book Award at the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. Penny studied Arts/Science at Melbourne University majoring in Chemistry and Indonesian. While at university Penny performed stand-up comedy, including in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Penny now works as a researcher for television quiz shows Hard Quiz and The Chase, but is still terrible at trivia.