Read her interview with Cath Moore about Metal Fish, Falling Snow here. Though raised in Australia she has also lived in Scotland and Belgium. Jacqui Davies is a freelance writer and reviewer based in South Australia. Born in Guyana, Cath Moore is of Irish/Afro-Caribbean heritage. Astonishingly original, heartfelt and funny, Metal Fish, Falling Snow is recommended for readers 12 and up. Through Dylan’s encounters with the land and her struggle with her inner demons, Moore explores ideas of self-acceptance, identity and belonging. First-time novelist Cath Moore renders Dylan’s uniqueness with grace and humour, imbuing her with endearing turns of phrase and eccentricities that make for an unforgettable character. Pat just wants the best for Dylan, whose unique way of seeing the world makes her vulnerable, while Dylan, who feels like a stranger in her own skin, plans on finding the boat she has always dreamed about and rowing her mum’s spirit across the ocean back to her home in France. On the journey Dylan’s ‘stupid smarts’ get her and Pat into a series of predicaments as she flees with a busload of grandmas, crashes Pat’s car and gets into a fight with local boys. However, Dylan and Pat have different ideas about what will happen when they reach their destination. Left alone with her mum’s boyfriend Pat, Dylan has no choice but to leave her hometown and join him on a road trip through the outback to meet her absent Guyanese-born father’s family. Through families lost and found, this own-voices story celebrates the resilience of the human heart and our need to know who we truly are.Dylan blames herself for her mum’s recent tragic death. Metal Fish, Falling Snow is a warm, funny and highly original portrait of a young girl’s search for identity and her struggle to deal with grief. One that will be broken when he leaves her with the family she has never known. As they travel through remote towns further and further from the water that Dylan longs for, she and Pat form an unlikely bond. ReadPlus Guyanese-Australian writer Cath Moores debut novel, Metal Fish, Falling Snow (Text), is a lyrical and moving road trip across regional. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won’t make her stand out, a place where she might feel she belongs.īut when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey: a road trip across outback Australia in the care of her mother’s grieving boyfriend, Pat.
NOTABLES, 2021 CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, OLDER READERSĭylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. SHORTLIST, 2021 CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, OLDER READERS HONOURS, 2021 CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, OLDER READERS
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