Steph Bowe
Steph Bowe | |
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| Born | 1 February 1994 |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist and blogger |
| Website | http://www.stephbowe.com/ |
Steph Bowe
Biography
Steph Bowe was born in 1994 in Melbourne,Australia. She is a young writer and blogger, and she actually lives in Queensland, Australia. Her first novel, Boy saves girl was published in 2010, and it was a great success in Australia and New Zealand. 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. She has been at Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, National Young Writers' Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. 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).
Girl saves boy
“Girl saves boy” was the debut novel of Steph Bowe. 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 youg girl of his age? saves him when he is going to commit suicide. Jewel is the other prinicipal 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, con la que? doesn’t have a good relation. 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.