SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers SHORTLISTED: 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Writing for Young Adults 'A moving coming-of-age story with so much heart. For readers who enjoyed Heartstopper.' BOOKS & PUBLISHING Footsteps approach behind me. I turn and see an Aboriginal boy arriving at the doorway. He's tall, taller than me. He's got curly hair. His body is fit. His chest is chiselled and bare and he's wearing only football shorts. When 17-year-old Jonah arrives in a new town - Patience - with his dad and younger brothers, it feels like a foreign place.