Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold5/27/2023 ![]() It turns out this is going to be one hell of a year. ![]() As Sandy and Red deal with girls, dirt biking, footy and friendship, both have to work out who they want to be, without their mum. His brother Red is 18 and working the farm. Winner of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award Sandy knows that life at 15 is hard, but it's even harder when your mum died a year ago and nothing's gone right since. The Mallee, where they live, may seem like the middle of nowhere, but it turns out this is going to be one hell of a year. As Sandy and Red deal with girls, dirt biking, footy and friendship, both boys have to work out who they want to be, without their mum around. ![]() He does his best, but - really - he doesn't have a clue. He's amped up on rage and always looking for a fight. His brother Red, on the other hand, is eighteen now and working the farm. Sandy Douglas knows that life at fifteen is hard, but it's even harder when your mother died a year ago and nothing's gone right since. It's like I'm not meant to be here but I am. I live on a farm but I get hay fever and I'm scared of goats. I live in the Mallee but I don't like the desert. Sometimes I feel like I'm neither one thing nor another. ![]()
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