Six Bedrooms

Author(s): Tegan Bennett Daylight

Fiction - General

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.

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Tegan Bennett Daylight is a critic, teacher and fiction writer. She is the author of several books for children and teenagers, the novels Bombora, What Falls Away and Safety. Her stories appear in a wide range of Australian journals, including Griffith Review, Meanjin and Best Australian Stories. She loves in the Blue Mountains with her husband and two children.

General Fields

  • : 9780857989130
  • : Random House Australia
  • : Vintage (Australia)
  • : 0.306
  • : February 2015
  • : 233mm X 154mm X 20mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FA
  • : 240
  • : en
  • : 715
  • : Paperback
  • : Tegan Bennett Daylight