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Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award, this is an extraordinary novel about a family struggling to cope with a different and difficult child.

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Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the 2015 Voss Literary Prize and the 2015 Stella Prize
Longlisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Meet Jimmy Flick. He´s not like other kids - he´s both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy´s mother Paula is the only one who can manage him. She teaches him how to count sheep so that he can fall asleep. She holds him tight enough to stop his cells spinning. It is only Paula who can keep Jimmy out of his father´s way. But when Jimmy´s world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right.

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It is outrageous that someone as young, beautiful and - goddamit - as happy looking as Sofie Laguna has written this wee beauty of a novel... As a "domestic" novel, it could be cliched, but Laguna, through Jimmy´s wonderful eyes, makes every sentence, every word, sing and soar. Irish Times

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Sofie Laguna is an author, actor and playwright. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Minister´s Literary Award for Fiction. She has written the screenplay for the film of One Foot Wrong and her second novel, The Eye of the Sheep, won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

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