Available Formats
The Deep
By (Author) Tim Winton
Illustrated by Karen Louise
Fremantle Press
Fremantle Arts Centre Press
1st October 1999
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
A823.3
Paperback
32
Width 220mm, Height 220mm, Spine 4mm
186g
Alice's family lives by the sea. Every day they run down to the jetty and jump into the smooth, dark water. They look like a bunch of dolphins leaping and laughing. But Alice misses out. She's afraid of the deep. She's afraid of what might be down there where the water turns from green to blue and you can't see the bottom. Then, one day some new friends come into the bay and Alice forgets to be scared.
Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows,Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Find out more on Facebook