Book description
'Tenderfoot is magnificent. Deeply moving. Beautiful. Powerful' TRENT DALTON
By the bestselling, award-winning author of Addition, an exhilarating novel about coming of age in 1970s Australia.
Wait for the boxes to open, wait for the race to begin. Wait, and your greyhound will cease to be the dog you know…
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A first person story written from the viewpoints of a female character at ages twelve and sixty. Twelve year-old Andie grew up In Brisbane Australia in a dysfunctional gambling family that was obsessed by greyhound racing, although Andie herself was more interested in the family greyhound Tenderfoot and her beloved family. The novel is a moving coming-of-age tale in which mature Andie reveals a tender wisdom for her younger self and comes to realize at last that her difficult mother loved her and that the father she adored was flawed.
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