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' The Starlings is another brilliant offering from this talented Australian author.' BookMooch It's March 1985 and Nicky Starling is turning eight, but it's a sad day. Nicky's grandmother Didie has just died. Almost worse—his father's beloved football team has lost the first match of the season. Nicky will miss Didie but he still has Rose, Didie's nurse. He wishes he could love footy, but what he really loves are the tales of King Arthur and stories from Shakespeare that his mother reads to him and that he acts out in his bedroom. But these stories often end badly, an alarming fact for a boy whose family life is starting to fracture. Funny, tender and savage, The Starlings is a wonderfully entertaining novel about secrets and defeat, about heroism and love, about what it might mean to lose everything. Vivienne Kelly was born and educated in Melbourne, where she now lives. She has worked at the University of Melbourne and at Monash University, and was awarded a doctorate for her work on myth and history in Australia. Cooee , her first novel, was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Awards. 'Football, the plays of Shakespeare and Arthurian legends are all interwoven in thi

Who reads The Starlings?

Author

Kelly, Vivienne

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925498059

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.88 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14