Six Bedrooms
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Six Bedrooms is about growing up; about discovering sex; and about coming of age. Full of glorious angst, embarrassment and small achievements.
Hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity, sneaking booze from your mother’s pantry, the painful sophistication and squalor of your first share house, cancer, losing a parent.
Tegan Bennett Daylight’s powerful collection captures the dangerous, tilting terrain of becoming adult. Over these ten stories, we find acute portrayals of loss and risk, of sexual longing and wreckage, blunders and betrayals. Threaded through the collection is the experience of troubled, destructive Tasha, whose life unravels in unexpected ways, and who we come to love for her defiance, her wit and her vulnerability.
Stunningly written, and shot through with humour and menace, Six Bedrooms is a mesmerising collection of moments from adolescence through adulthood, a mix of all the potent ingredients that make up a life.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The stories in Tegan Bennett Daylight’s collection are like shards of glass: sharp, cutting and dangerously beautiful. She writes about the ugliest moments of adolescence and young adulthood: mortifying drunkenness, festering insecurities, unrequited lust. We paused at the end of each story to reminisce about our own confused journey to claiming our place in the world. Then we jumped right back in, devouring Daylight’s strong and unrelentingly honest prose.
