So Close to Home

Name: So Close to Home
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922992239
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By Mick Cummins

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In So Close to Home by Mick Cummins, the plot unfolds in a gripping narrative about a family forced to confront unexpected challenges and hardships. Set against the backdrop of a seemingly ordinary life, the story delves into themes of resilience, secrets, and the bonding power of family as they navigate unforeseen trials. The novel intricately weaves the complexities of emotional and relational dynamics, drawing readers into a tale of hope and redemption.
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So Close to Home

A tense, moving novel about a young man struggling with addiction and trauma from the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. For fans of Craig Silvey's Honeybee and Mark Brandi's Wimmera

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Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to heroin. His mum has kicked him out of home in a last-ditch move to help him get straight, and he wanders the streets of South Melbourne, living on his wits and sleeping rough – all the while chasing drugs, dreams and love.

Desperate to fund his addiction, Aaron climbs into the car of The Man, a distinguished elderly gentleman willing to pay for a certain kind of relationship. This regular cash could be the lifeline Aaron needs to start again, but The Man keeps raising spectres from Aaron's past that he'd rather forget. As Aaron gathers the courage to confront the events that derailed his life, his rage grows – and the consequences could be fatal.

So Close to Home is a pacy, gritty and captivating novel exploring homelessness, power dynamics and the ties that bind. Social worker, debut author and winner of the prestigious VPLA for Unpublished Manuscript Mick Cummins has created a striking, emotionally complex and unnervingly tense narrative that poses one simple question: who can we ever truly rely on?

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922992239

Publisher: Affirm Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Affirm Press

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Mick Cummins was born in Tasmania where he wrote his first full-length play, Window Without a View. It was elected for a reading at the Australian National Playwrights Conference and produced at Hobart's Theatre Royal Backspace. In 1994 he moved to Melbourne with his partner and two children, where his second play, Perfect Madness, was developed with the Melbourne Writer's Theatre and produced at the Carlton Courthouse. In 2001 he won the NSW Premier's History Award for the documentary Thomson of Arnhem Land before co-writing the ABC docu-dramas, Monash: The Forgotten Anzac and Menzies and Churchill at War. He wrote and directed the ABC documentaries The Woodcutter's Son and Portrait of a Distant Land and has written two unproduced feature film scripts developed with Screen Tasmania, Film Victoria and Screen Australia. His latest screenplay, The Hut, is in pre-production. So Close to Home is his first novel.