The Dead I Know

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Publisher's synopsis

Aaron Rowe has dreams he can’t explain, and memories he can’t recover. But if he doesn’t discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up. A potent, intense, psychodrama that will keep you gripped to the very last page.

Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep. He has dreams he can’t explain, and memories he can’t recover. Death doesn’t scare him – his new job with a funeral director may even be his salvation. But if he doesn’t discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up.

Awards

Short-listed NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2012 AU
Short-listed WA Premier’s Book Award 2012 AU
Short-listed Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Young Adult Fiction 2012 AU
Winner CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2012 2012 AU
Commended FAW Christina Stead Award 2011 AU

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Scot Gardner

Scot wasn’t born reading and writing; in fact he left school in year eleven to undertake an apprenticeship in gardening with the local council. He has worked as a waiter, masseur, delivery truck driver, home dad, counsellor and musician.

Scot’s first fiction for young readers, One Dead Seagull, was published after he attended a writing camp and writing conferences with John Marsden. His many books since include Burning Eddy, shortlisted for a CBCA award and for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, and Gravity, shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.

Scot lives with his wife and one of three children (the others are grown-ups), a poodle and some chooks in the bush in Eastern Victoria. He divides his time between writing and teaching tech and welfare at a secondary college in Gippsland.

Photo courtesy of Allen & Unwin

I have never read a book more gripping, nor a book more triumphantly alive. I love how it haunts me still. I swear, I will never forget 'The Dead I Know'.

John Marsden

Further Details

Author Scot Gardner

Publisher Allen & Unwin

Date of Publication 2011

ISBN 9781742373843

Category Young Adult

Pages

216