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    Hawker Kingsley
    Hawker Kingsley
    Hawker Kingsley
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    Hawker Kingsley

    By Tom Woodward

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    Tyson Crescent is home to forty-two year old Hawker Kingsley, a kitten-breeding ex-con who is done with friendship, sick of love and tired of humans in general. Avoided and feared by his neighbours, he becomes an object of fascination to Elsie Ashberg, the teenage wannabe-writer who lives next door. Carrying through with a dare, Elsie knocks on Hawker’s door. A volatile and unlikely friendship is born.

    In the throes of adolescence, Elsie is growing suspicious of all her untested assumptions. She is tired of the phoniness of her teachers, the hypocrisy of her former hippy parents and the pettiness of the people around her. Hawker’s apparent rejection of the entire social world seems a panacea to her increasing cynicism. Her pursuit of the mysterious loner takes her into foreign and threatening psychological terrain in
    which the safety of her suburban, middle-class childhood will be lost forever.

    Hawker Kingsley is a tale about growing up, about the unpredictable, socially impervious nature of desire, and asks the question: can people ever truly be selfless?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Woodward
    Release dateAug 10, 2012
    ISBN9781476178004
    Hawker Kingsley
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    Tom Woodward

    Tom Woodward is mostly known as a recording artist and songwriter. To pay the bills, he has worked as a fruit picker, bartender, mail officer, audio transcriber and kitchen hand. He began writing fiction as a child. As of 2017, he is he is based in Tasmania, Australia.

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