You might notice the Placeholder in the first post. I'm playing around with leaving it there from now on and also maybe looking for a way to make it less visible without spoiler tags in case I do start leaving it in the first posts. I put it there because it's just easier to take it from there than somewhere else, especially if I'm updating many times.
Now, for my second nomination I put forth
Careful He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott. I think it looks a little different than the norm for us and it's an Australian classic. It won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1963 and is based on the author's own experience as a child. It's 304 pages.
Goodreads
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It’s the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided to take proper care of him. Careful, He Might Hear You is one of the most extraordinary portraits of childhood in Australian fiction.
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ETA - While it's quite different from both, it has echoes of our previous selections What Maisie Knew and Delta Wedding and could be interesting to contrast.