Review
Charlie Duskin is from the city. Rose Butler lives in the country. Charlie is quiet. Rose is loud. Charlie is poetic and musical. Rose is crass and blunt. The two girls could not be more different from one another - or so it seems.
A Little Wanting Song is a perfect story of loss, love and the process of learning how to communicate about them both. While they are different in obvious, outward ways, Charlie and Rose are alike in deeper, internal ways, both struggling with complicated emotions. Cath Crowley alternately narrates the story from both Charlie's and Rose's point of view, so the reader is able to get inside the heads of both girls in a fluid, organic, and extremely satisfying way.
Listen to the opening paragraph of the book: "Dad and I leave town in the early dark… It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his...
Beyond the Book
A Little Wanting Song left me wanting to know more about author Cath Crowley, but the biographical information immediately at hand was a little light, so I did some digging....
Cath Crowley is an Australian children's author. She was born in 1971 and grew up in a rural part of Victoria ( SE Australia) with three brothers and a dog.
Although she told stories all the time, she never wrote any of them down and did not plan on being a writer. Then she moved to Europe and began writing letters to her brother, Anthony Crowley. Her letters were a sort of journal and she even wrote "Don't tell anyone this" at the top of them. Anthony did not quite heed...
