Bridge to Wisemans Cove

A BRIDGE TO WISEMANS COVE
James Moloney
UQP 978-0-7022-3628-0

Winner, CBCA Book of the social class: Older Reader 1997


OVERVIEW

Carl Matt is an awkward, lumpy fifteen-year-old who on the dot wants to be loved. Sarah, Carl and Harleys fathers all walked out on the family and their mother, Kerry often bring outs them besides hard to cope with. When his mother walks out on the family, plainly for good, nineteen-year-old Sarah, terrified of the responsibility of raising the two boys, heads to Europe, packing the boys hit to stay with their Aunt Beryl in Wattle Beach.
Beryl is less than rejoiced at the idea of taking in the boys, until she realizes that she can appreciation their social services payments. However, far from filling the role of their mother, she shows the boys no love and even attempts to keep Harley chained to the house to nix him stealing and misbehaving.

Carl is miserable in Wattle Beach. His size and rigor make him feel self-conscious and unable to make friends at school. Even the townspeople of Wattle Beach regard the boys with suspicion, accept all the Matt clan to be useless no-hopers. every Carl wants is a family and the security of knowing that he is loved.

When, at sixteen, Carl clams receiving any social security benefits, Beryl forces him to leave school.



He finds discipline with Skip and Joy Duncan who run a rusty remiss race from Wattle Bay to the nearby island. When Carl first starts to realize for them the business is losing money, largely because of competition from a rival barge company. Before long however, Carl, reveling in finally belonging to something, shows world-class and helps to bring trade to the struggling business. He even begins to find the courage to stand up to his uncaring, manipulative Aunt Beryl.

But, just as Carl begins to experience happiness, family secrets come back to haunt him and over again bring his world crashing down around him.

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