Boys of Blood and Bone

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Penguin Group Australia, Jun 2, 2003 - Fiction - 290 pages
Henry is heading up to stay with friends at Saint Helena Bay when his car breaks down just outside a country town. Forced to stay over in the town while his car is fixed, Henry is befriended by two local teenagers, Trot & Janine, & the enigmatic & very old Cecilia. Henry looks exactly like Andy Lansell, her fiancee who left to fight in the Great War eighty years ago & never returned. She shares with Henry her memories of Andy & lends him Andy's diary. His car fixed, Henry heads off to Saint Helena Bay for a week of sailboarding with his friends, but his head is full of Andy's story, which begins to unfold in parallel to Henry's story.

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About the author (2003)

David Metzenthen had an Honour Book at the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards with his title, One Minute's Silence. This title also made the Nib's Anzac Centenary Literary Prize shortlist. In 2016 his book, Dreaming the Enemy, won a Queensland Literary Award in the Young Adult category.