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T h e T r u e S t o r y o f B u t t e r f i s h
When Annaliese Winter walks down Curtis Holland's front path, he's ill-prepared for a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who's a confounding mixture of adult and child. After years travelling the world with his band, Butterfish, he's not used to having a neighbour at all.
So when Curtis receives an invitation to dinner from Annaliese's mother, Kate, he is surprised when he not only accepts but finds himself being drawn to this remarkably unremarkable family. Even to fifteen-year-old Mark who is at war with his own surging adolescence.
Curtis soon realises that with Kate divorced, Annaliese and Mark need a male role model in their lives, but it's hard for him to help when he's just starting to grow up himself and harder still when Annaliese begins to show an interest in him that is less than filial.
Filled with acute observation, humour and tenderness, Butterfish is Nick Earls at his very best.
(Jacket blurb from The True Story of Butterfish)
The True Story of Butterfish - 2009 play
Following the successful stage and screen adaptations of After January, 48 Shades of Brown and Zigzag Street, The True Story of Butterfish will premiere at the Brisbane Powerhouse on Thursday 1 October, 2009. The play marks Nick Earls' debut as a playwright, and will run until Sunday 25 October, 2009.
Produced by Brisbane Powerhouse and directed by Andrew Ross, the play will feature original songs by Go-Betweens co-founder Robert Forster and Ranger bassist and vocalist Adele Pickvance.
More information on the play, including ticket information, is available from Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre.
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Following its release, order The True Story of Butterfish online at:
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Angus & Robertson (Australia)Alternatively, if you want to order it in at your local bookstore, the ISBN is 9781741666335
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