The Eye of the Sheep

Author(s): Sofie Laguna

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Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2015 Voss Literary Prize and the 2015 Stella PrizeLonglisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids - he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy's mother Paula is the only one who can manage him. She teaches him how to count sheep so that he can fall asleep. She holds him tight enough to stop his cells spinning. It is only Paula who can keep Jimmy out of his father's way. But when Jimmy's world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right.

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Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015. Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015. Long-listed for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.

Sofie Laguna originally studied to be a lawyer, but after deciding law was not for her, she trained as an actor. Sofie is now an author, actor and playwright. Her books for young people have been named Honour Books and Notable Books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Awards. She has been published in the US and the UK and in translation in Europe and Asia. Sofie's first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was also published throughout Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom. Sofie has written the screenplay for the film of One Foot Wrong, scheduled for pre-production in 2014.

General Fields

  • : 9781760292799
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : 302.0
  • : November 2015
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : November 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 320
  • : 823.92
  • : en
  • : Paperback
  • : Sofie Laguna