'Condon presents readers with confronting and emotive issues ... Yet he still manages to weave humour, tenderness, love and mateship into the framework of the novel.' - Sun Herald.
Bill Condon was born in 1949 and lives with his wife Dianne (Di)
Bates, also a children's author, in the seaside town of Woonona, on
the south coast of New South Wales. He left school at the first
chance he got and worked in an assortment of jobs before a chance
meeting with Larry Rivera, the editor of a local weekly newspaper,
led Bill into a career as a journalist. He left journalism to
devote himself full-time to writing for children, and in 2010 Bill
was the winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for
Young Adult Fiction for his book Confessions of a Liar, Thief and
Failed Sex God. When not writing, Bill plays tennis, snooker, and
Scrabble, but hardly ever at the same time. His dream is to receive
a wildcard invitation to play tennis at Wimbledon - if nothing
else, his knees would provide great comic relief for the
spectators.
"[Protagonist] Tiff's believable insecurities hooks the reader from
the first page, and the everyday problems of her life, so uniquely
Australian yet so universally young adult, keeps one turning
pages." --Booklist Online
"This book is for anyone who is a fan of slice-of-life stories full
of heart and a bit of humor." --The Readventurer
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