Butterfly Author:Sonya Hartnett Here is Plum Coyle, on the threshold of adolescence, striving to be new. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching: her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, at ease. The strength in the objects she stores in a briefcase under her bed ? a crystal lamb, a yoyo, an antique watch, a penny ? will make sure of... more » it. Over the next couple of weeks, Plum?s life will change. Her beautiful neighbor, Maureen, will begin to show her how she might fly. The older brothers she adores ? the charismatic Justin, the enigmatic Cydar ? will court catastrophe in worlds that she barely knows exist. And her friends ? her worst enemies ? will tease and test, smelling weakness. They will try to lead her on and take her down. Butterfly is a gripping, disquieting, beautifully observed coming-of-age novel by an acclaimed author at the top of her form. Advance praise for Butterfly: ?Butterfly is a dreamy, lyrical, sad novel. It?s exquisitely written ? you end up rereading sentence after sentence ? and unforgettable.? - Nick Hornby, author of Slam, High Fidelity, and About a Boy ?An extraordinary writer. . . . A heart-stopping representation of adolescent girlhood, as strange and riddling and true as fiction gets. . . . Dazzling.? ? The Age (Australia) ?Full of insight and wit.? ? The Guardian (U.K.) ?Blending the all-too-familiar with a more otherworldly, fairy-tale feel, Hartnett really has the ability to get inside the head of her dazzled teenage protagonist.? ? The Daily Mail (U.K.)« less