- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd (5 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0744556406
- ISBN-13: 978-0744556407
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,488,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nick Earls has been described by a reviewer in The Daily Mirror as "the first Aussie to make me laugh since Jason Donovan"."
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An award-winning young adult novel that explores themes of identity, adolescent alienation and the rites of passage. Australian teenager Dan Bancroft had a choice to make: go to Geneva with his parents for a year, or move into a house with his bass-playing aunt Jacq and her friend Naomi. He chooses Jacq's place, and his life will never be the same. This action-packed and laugh-out-loud-funny novel navigates Dan's chaotic world of calculus, roommates, birds and love.; "Forty-eight Shades of Brown" won the prestigious Children's Book of the Year: Older Readers Award from the Children's Book Council of Australia.
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A 16-year-old becomes the housemate of Venus, the goddess of love, or so he thinks. I came across this book in an interesting way. I have a book out called "The Wednesday Girl". Earlier this year, I received a random e-mail from a gentleman in Australia. He said he was writing a book of the same title, "The Wednesday Girl". He sent me some of his work and also included in the package a book he liked: "48 Shades of Brown". This is a surprisingly deep book about adolescence from across the big pond. Though I found the use of dialogue without quotation marks tiresome, watching Dan move from obsessive-compulsive fear and alienation to (almost) nonchalance and self-confidence is a pretty sight, much like the birds his love interest watches and wants him to name since he's the only person in the house who knows 48 shades of brown. Coming into one's own is something that happens over and over again in a well-lived life. Anyone who is in an evolutionary phase will find something in common with Dan. Recommended.
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