The 10 PM Question

FICTION CATEGORY RUNNER-UP 2009

READERS' CHOICE AWARD WINNER 2009

The 10 PM Question - Kate De Goldi

Longacre Press
ISBN 978-1-87746-020-3 pb, RRP $29.99
Target Age 13+

Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man: an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head. Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent anxieties; only Ma listens patiently to his 10pm queries. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask…

Kate De Goldi is the author of three novels for young adults, a collection of short fiction for adults and three picture books for children. She reviews children’s books regularly on Radio New Zealand National’s Saturday programme with broadcaster, Kim Hill.  She also reviews books on TVNZ’s Good Morning show.

Kate tours schools nationwide, running creative writing workshops for students and teachers.  She is a regular speaker on children’s and young adult literature at conferences and seminars. In 2001 Kate was made a NZ Arts Foundation Arts Laureate.

In 2005, Kate’s picture book Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story won the Picture Book category and was the 2005 Book of the Year in the New Zealand Post Book Awards.