Cath Murphy, second-grade teacher, was feeling awkward and foolish, but she also felt this: quirky, cocky, small, funny, wicked and extremely blonde. As her mother liked to say, all meetings with new people, even locksmiths or seven-year-olds, can make you a little afraid. She was about to meet her new class and she had just met the new teacher: Warren Woodford.
However, Cath Murphy has yet to meet the Zing family...
"[Moriarty] has carefully and cleverly built an extraordinary book of great charm and originality... [the] narrative is studded with wry and lovely observations on life" (Sunday Telegraph)
Jaclyn Moriarty grew up in Sydney's north-west and studied Law and English on three continents - at Sydney University in Australia, Yale in the US and Cambridge in England. She spent four years working as a media and entertainment lawyer and now writes full-time so that she can sleep in each day. She lives in Sydney.
ISBN:
9780330422079
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/11/2005
Category:
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Imprint:
Picador Australia
Pages:
432 page/s
Stock:
In stock
Price:
$21.99 AUD