Guitar Highway Rose

Shortlisted, Shaeffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 1998Highly Commended, Family Award for Children’s Literature 1998Shortlisted, Book of the Year Older Readers, Council Book of the Year Awards 1998Shortlisted, Children’s and Young Adults Award, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 1997Friday Afternoon/3.35Pm/Phone CallRosie? It’s Asher.Hi.If you come over now we can get it happening. Do you still want to?Yes.Are you sure?Yes.Are you sure sure?Asher, I told you. I’m sure.Rosie is restless. She wants a nose-ring, and more…she wants to do something, be someone, be someone else. Asher is the new boy in her class. He has dreadlocks, a guitar and a bad case of the gypsy blues. And he just wants to get away.Sometimes we know we shouldn’t and that’s exactly why we do.Part love story, part road story, Brigid Lowry’s Guitar Highway Rose free-wheels through the darker and lighter sides of life with wit, charm and compassion.