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Lonesome When You Go
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Paige plays bass in high school rock band Vox Pop, which means keeping asteady rhythm even in their most raucous rock and roll moments.
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But in the tense build-up to the Rockfest competition, Paige finds she cant control everything in her life, no matter how hard
she practises and how loud she plays. Theres stuff happening in the band that she cant put her finger on, a friend who cant handle her own secret anymore and a mysterious guy who plays double bass like an angel. But there isnt much time to sort things out Rockfest looms and so does the end of the school year, when everything will change for good. Lonesome When You Go is a novel about practising solo, performing like a rockstar and how contributing your best self to something can create a force much greater than the sum of its parts. After teaching English at high schools in Wellington for ten years, Saradha now lives in Melbourne with a drummer, a writing desk and a bicycle. She is the author of two collections of poetry. Featured in the 11 July 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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