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  • Published: 1 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742749204
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Aliki Says




A powerful novel about family secrets and forgetting, from the award-winning author of Willow Tree and Olive.

A powerful novel about family secrets and forgetting, from the award-winning author of Willow Tree and Olive.
Aliki syas, 'Jump!' and everyone says, 'How high?'

Aliki and her cousin Liza are best friends, but sometimes Liza wishes Aliki didn’t always get all of the attention. Liza is on her way to Greece to collect their grandmother and bring her back to Australia to live. But the dark secret their
grandmother carries with her threatens to tear their world apart.

As the girls prepare for their final year of high school, the summer brings with it a sea of unanswered questions. Questions that will affect the rest of their lives . . .

  • Published: 1 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742749204
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Irini Savvides

Irini’s first novel Willow Tree and Olive, received several awards including a White Raven in Bologona in 2002, and she was named one of the finalists in the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second novel, Sky Legs won the 2004 Peace Award. Other titles include: A Marathon of Her Own, Aliki Says, and a verse novel Against the Tide. Her picture book Hide and Seek was recently translated into Japanese and sent to child survivors of the tsunami. Irini was awarded her PhD in 2013 with the Writing and Society Group at the University of Western Sydney. She has been a judge for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2014-2016. She lives and works in Sydney.