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Everything I Knew
Peter Goldsworthy
Hamish Hamilton
Fiction
It's the year 1964, and fourteen-year-old know-it-all Robbie Burns is about to discover he still has a lot to learn. Robbie leads an idyllic life of rabbiting, backyard science experiments, and hooligan scrapes with his friend Billy in Penola. Penola is oblivious even to its minor celebrity as the birthplace of the poet John Shaw Neilson, but poetry means the world to Robbie's new teacher from the city, the stylish Miss Peach, a sixties sophisticate. Miss Peach's artistic yearnings and modern ways prove too much for Penola, but they fire Robbie's precocious imagination and burgeoning sexuality, until what begins as a schoolboy fantasy has terrible, real consequences. Everything I Knew challenges our determination to believe in the innocence of childhood and adolescence.
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