Eddy, Eddy
Kate De Goldi
Allen & Unwin
Pub. 2022

July 7, 2022

Eddy Smallbone is 19 years old and an orphan, New World employee, pet minder and unintentional babysitter. His story starts just after the death of his much-loved dog. Struggling with life after the Christchurch earthquakes, he is living with his eccentric uncle, ‘Brain’, and trying to figure out what he wants to do next. Should he find his own place to stay? Get a ‘proper’ job? Leave Christchurch?

But these questions fall away as he meets new friends and reconnects with old ones and realises that what he’s looking for is already right in front of him.  Read more