num_pages: 293
description: Attuned to her mother's volatile moods, eight-year-old Pearl watches over her small brother while carefully guarding her private passions. Sonia, recently widowed and with her two sons far away in Europe, is learning to live alone again. Then there's Adam, an artist who has yet to learn the true nature of love or grief. In ways unforeseen, all three will be connected by the tragedy that is about to shatter Pearl's life. Combining the intimacy of a family's heartache with the tension of a thriller, this wise, compassionate novel conveys the frightening vulnerability of children as it explores the ties of affection and responsibility that bind people together, but are too often neglected in our modern world.
language: English
title: Careless
titlecomplete: Careless
genres: Fiction, Australia, Book Club, Literature, Novels, Contemporary
ratings_count: 243
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Colin Roderick Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA)
category: Literary Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award
publisher: Sceptre