Stubborn Seed of Hope: Collection

✍ Scribed by Falkner, Brian;

• Book ID: 109879694
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 8 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780702259692

✦ Synopsis

A collection of gripping short stories themed around fear and hope written by internationally acclaimed children’s author Brian Falkner.

A boy helps his sister disguise her birthmark on her first day of school. A seventeen-year-old awakens to find himself trapped in an elderly body.A teenage girl discovers her boyfriend has a life-threatening virus the day after they share their first kiss.A high school student tries to communicate to his hospitalised brother who is in a vegetative state.

Brian Falkner serves up bite-sized tales of fear – fear of rejection, fear of dying, fear of disease, fear of the unknown, fear of exclusion, fear of being caught and fear of embarrassment – showing how that stubborn seed of hope hungers our darkest moments.