Goodbye Jamie Boyd

Elizabeth Fensham

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702238178
• Year: 2008

'Love's not a cake', I say. 'You don't carve it into pieces 'til there's none left; it's more like the Magic Pudding - the more you use of it, the more it grows.'
Anna and Jamie are inseparable, the brother and sister team who face the world, their family and school together. Their love for each other is bigger than anything else they know and stronger than any ordinary bond. It is Jamie who challenges Anna throughout her life; Jamie who drives her to do things and makes her grow up, Jamie who dares her to jump off Ben Hall's Rock, smoke weed and drive fast round Carrot Wash Bend. When Anna Boyd kills her brother, what follows next is a revelation to all, most especially to Anna. A powerful verse novel from one of Australia's acclaimed storytellers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Title page
• Copyright
• R.I.P.Jamie Boyd
• Us Kids
• Ideas Man
• Prophet
• Dare You
• Bundamurrah High
• Reckless Driving
• On the Outside
• Green-eyed Monster
• Wrong Note
• Deepest Cut of All
• Perchance to Dream
• Milly
• Choices
• Prove You Love Me
• Sleep Talk
• Prove You Love Me
• Weirdo
• The Last Straw
• Turning Point
• Doc
• Don’t Kill Me
• Killing Jamie
• Dear Jamie
• I Pray
• Nothing Will Come of Nothing
• Holding onto String
• Drought and Despair
• Trust
• Branded
• Out in the Open
• Downer
• Hitting the Roof
• Empty
• Broken Promises
• Art Class
• Creativity
• Piano
• Cold Turkey
• Taking Risks
• Terror
• The Talk