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The Catalogue of the Universe

The Catalogue of the Universe

by Margaret Mahy (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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    Paperback 1991

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    Hardcover 1993

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Synopsis

Opposites attract...? Angela May and Tycho Potter couldn't be more different: she is tall and beautiful, confident and carefree; he is short and serious, plain and self-conscious. Angela is popular and sexy, with many boyfriends; Tyke prefers the company of his books and watching the skies through his telescope. Tyke has a huge crush on Angela, yet these two 18-year-olds are unlikely best friends. He loves and is mentally tortured by her in roughly equal measure. Angela acts out her burning desire to find and confront her father, whom her mother describes as having been the love affair of her life, but the truth is a very different story which shatters all her childhood imaginings. After a dramatic confrontation it is to Tycho she turns for support, and as their very different worlds collide they begin to understand the unpredictability of life as the repercussions touch everyone around them.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: (Reissue)
 Publisher: Collins Flamingo
Published: 06 Nov 2009
ISBN 10: 0007123388
ISBN 13: 9780007123384
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
 Book Overview: Margaret Mahy received The Order of New Zealand for her internationally acclaimed contribution to children's literature. She has twice won the Carnegie Medal for The Haunting in 1982 and The Changeover in 1984.

Media Reviews
Margaret Mahy is outstanding in the richness of her ideas and in her great storytelling ability. Twentieth Century Children's Writers Of course, like everything Margaret Mahy writes, it is very funny ... written with an awareness of the possibilities of language which can only be called poetic, and drawing convincing family relationships ... such pleasures should be widely shared. TES Mahy's impulsive, 'non-predictable' style makes all convincing by sheer vividness and verve. TLS
Author Bio
Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand and has loved telling stories all her life. She has published well over a hundred titles and won several major prizes and awards, including The Order of New Zealand, for her internationally-acclaimed contribution to children's literature. She has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, (The Haunting, 1982, and The Changeover, 1984). Margaret lives in the South Island of New Zealand, in a house which she partially built herself, overlooking Governor's Bay.