Humour and heart that I already knew Will could do, but a reckoning and sharing on the page that’s so generous and tender from him as an artist. Never mind that I know and greatly respect Will - I was a fan first, but now I know him as an artist and friend too - and part of me wondered if my knowing how much this story is drawing on his own experiences would cloud my reading?īecause this book *walloped* me in the best ways. Now, before I can give my opinion you need to know that Will Kostakis got his first book-deal before he graduated high school, and his debut ‘Loathing Lola’ released when he was 19. Top of that pile was Will Kostakis’ new #LoveOzYA from Allen & Unwin - ‘ We Could Be Something’ Harvey and Sotiris's stories converge on the same street in Darlinghurst, in this beautifully heartfelt novel about how our dreams shape us, and what they cost us.īack from Brisbane Writers Festival, and I finally sent something off that was overdue - which means my brain had been freed up to treat myself to some books I’ve been hoarding and *desperate* to read. When his career falters, a cute, wise-cracking bookseller named Jem upends his world. At seventeen, he's already achieved his dream of publishing a novel. Now he's restarting his life in a new city, living above a cafe with the extended Greek family he barely knows.
Woken-by-his-father-to-catch-a-red-eye sudden. It's been on the cards for a while, but it's still sudden.
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