Came Back to Show You I Could Fly Author:Robin Klein She was the most beautiful person he'd ever seen in his life ... Anyone who wore satin and silver lace and black nail polish, anyone who had a little flying horse tattooed on one shoulder, could reach heights undreamed of by other people. — It's the summer holidays and eleven-year-old loner, Seymour, lodged with a fussy guardian in an inn... more »er-city suburb, is bored an unhappy in his confines world. By chance he meets Angie -- beautiful, charismatic Angie. He is bewitched, and his world is opened as she takes him on unexpected holiday outings and shopping sprees. Angie, however, is not what she seems. Far from being an extrovert and carefree, she too is lonely and trapped in her own unhappy world. Angie is using drugs ...
Winner of a 1989 Australian Human Rights Award for Literature.
Winner of the 1990 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award for older readers.
Shortlisted for the 1990 Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award.« less