True Story of Butterfish
By Nick Earls

True Story of Butterfish

By (author) Nick Earls

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With his chart-topping band, Butterfish, Curtis Holland lived the cliched rock dream. But no dream lasts forever. When Annaliese Winter walks down Curtis Holland's front path, he's ill-prepared for a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who's a confounding mixture of adult and child. He's back in Brisbane trying to build a life and he is not used to having a neighbour at all. So when Curtis receives an invitation to dinner from Annaliese's mother, Kate, he is surprised when he not only accepts but finds himself being drawn to this remarkably unremarkable family. Even to fifteen-year-old Mark, who is at war with his own surging adolescence. Curtis soon realises that with Kate divorced, Annaliese and Mark need a male role model in their lives, but it's hard for him to help when he's just starting to grow up himself and harder still when Annaliese begins to show an interest in him that is less than filial.

ISBN: 9781741666335
Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: Paperback (233mm x 153mm x 19mm)

Publish Date: 1-Jul-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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0 star rating by Boomert - The True Story of Butterfish by Nick Earls 07 Jan 2010
Nick Earls is back with his first adult novel in five years. It’s a warm novel about Curtis Holland, who moves into suburban Brisbane when his milliondollar band decides to separate after a less-thansuccessful third album. Curtis is struggling with what he is supposed to do in his new life when the neighbours invite him over for dinner. Earls has written some great characters into the book: Kate who is a struggling single mother; Annaliese, the 16- year-old daughter who is grappling with becoming an adult; and Mark, the 15-year-old son who writes porn and breeds fish. Add to this substance-using Derek (ex-frontman for the band), who comes to Australia to visit his cancer-stricken father and in the process repairs his relationship with Curtis, and Patrick, Curtis’ gay brother. This novel felt like Earls was trying something new with his writing, trying to move in a direction that I didn’t feel quite worked. While the characterisation is really strong, not enough happened in the book to make this a must-read for all customers that enjoy fine Australian writing. The novel would appeal to the Nick Hornby and ‘lad-lit’ market.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine (March 2009, Vol 88, No 6.) is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Author Biography: Nick Earls
Nick Earls is the author of thirteen books, including bestselling novels such as Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. The True Story of Butterfish is his first work simultaneously written as both a novel and a play.

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