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Author(s): Kate De Goldi

NZ Young Adult Fiction

A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love.


What made March really significant, what seared it on both our brains, was that Westie met his birth mother, Vicky, for the first time, a secret assignation . . . and I met Meredith Robinson . . .


Max Jackson tells the story of his friendship with Westie, from its wild, head-smacking glory to its bitter misunderstandings. In just one tumultuous year, a volatile cocktail - two young men, two women, love and hate and the weight of the past - changes that friendship for ever.


Winner of the Young Adult Fiction Honour Book Prize at the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

PUBLICATION MARCH 2018

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Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most loved authors, whose short fiction, novels and picture books engage children, teenagers and adults alike. The author of the phenomenal The 10 PM Question, which has been published extensively overseas, she is a two-time winner of the New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year Award.


The 10 PM Question won Book of the Year and Best Young Adult Fiction in the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards, was a runner-up in the 2009 Montana NZ Book Awards, and won the Readers' Choice Award. It was a finalist in the LIANZA Children's Book Awards for the Esther Glen Award, was shortlisted for the Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers' Choice Award, and was selected for the 2009 edition of the prestigious international catalogue The White Ravens.


She has a regular spot reviewing children's books on Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill on National Radio. De Goldi has won numerous other awards, including the Katherine Mansfield and American Express awards for short stories. She has held several major fellowships, including the 2010 Michael King Fellowship, and in 2001 was made an Arts Foundation Laureate.


In 2011 she was winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award, which is awarded for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. That same year she won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award, which is awarded to German and international authors 'for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public'.


A respected broadcaster, book festival chair and public speaker, she is also dedicated and committed to working with schoolchildren.

General Fields

  • : 9780143772040
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.185
  • : January 2018
  • : 1.4 Centimeters X 12.7 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kate De Goldi
  • : Paperback
  • : 192