![]() ![]() ![]() Wilde was a high-school teacher and she successfully conveys the mixed emotions of students at the end of year twelve, as they suddenly realise ‘this is it’. Suddenly Henry and his friends realise that the safe cocoon of school is about to disappear. ![]() This is a bitter-sweet, nostalgic look at the last semester of high-school. And then there is the matter of Henry Hamlet’s heart! Henry has fallen – hard – but will it ruin everything? There’s pressure from all sides for Henry and his friends to decide what direction they want their lives to take, not to mention the immediate pressure of looming exams. He’s the school captain and has a tight group of close friends, although Len has been his best friend ‘since forever’. It’s 2008 in Brisbane and Henry Hamlet is in his last semester of year twelve. Henry Hamlet’s Heart is Rhiannon Wilde’s first novel and won the State Library of Queensland Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2019. ![]()
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