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Revision as of 06:05, 19 March 2015
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Steph Bowe | |
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| Born | 1 February 1994 |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist and blogger |
| Website | http://www.stephbowe.com/ |
Steph Bowe (born 1994 in Melbourne, Australia) is a writer and blogger.[1] Her blog (‘Hey! Teenager of the Year’ ) receives about 12,000 hits per month.[1] She secured a book deal for her first novel Boy Saves Girl[1] in 2010, and it was a great success in Australia and New Zealand.[citation needed] This novel has also been traslated to other languages such as Spanish, Dutch and Catalan. Her second novel, All This Could End was published in 2013.[citation needed]
She has been at Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, National Young Writers' Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival.[citation needed] She has been on two Australian radio programms: Triple J's Hack (radio program) and Radio National's Life Matters, and she has also appeared on TV (Jennifer Byrne Presents, The Circle and Totally Wild).[citation needed]
Girl Saves Boy
Girl Saves Boy was Bowe's debut novel. The principal character of the book, Sasha, is 17 years old, and he has a terminal disease, leukemia. He tries to commit suicide in a lake near his house, but Jewel, a young girl of his age saves him when he is going to commit suicide. Jewel is the other principal characters, and she has neither an easy life. Her brother died in the same lake in which Sasha tries to commit suicide; as a consequence, her parents left Jewel alone and she had to go to live with her grandparents. Her grandparents also died, so she had to go to live with her mother. But the relationship with her mother isn't very good. After meeting in the lake, Sasha and Jewel will start a special friendship, and they will discover that there are a lot of things that they can’t fight with. This story will speak about real friendship, love familiar conflicts… and also about garden gnomes.
All this could end
All this could end is the second novel of Steph Bowe; it was published in 2013, and is a tale about dysfunctional families, trust and the importance of love. The principal character of the book is Nina, and also Spencer, a boy that she will meet later.
References
- ^ a b c Carlton, Alexandra (21 April 2013). "The kids are all writers". Sydney Morning-Herald. Retrieved 18 March 2015.