Longlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Shortlisted for the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Shortlisted for the 2011 Children's Book Council Awards

Shortlisted for the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award

Shortlisted for the 2010 QLD Premier's Literary Award

"While it is a sequel to the brilliant Saving Francesca, The Piper's Son works as a stand-alone book. Indeed it's a story so full of heart - sorrowful, but warm and funny - it won't be easy to forget."Angie Schiavone, The Sydney Morning Herald. The Piper’s Son left me breathless with heart pounding — it is a beautifully written love song about the flaws and strengths of family and the long journey of grief, about the love and laughter and disappointments that tie people together'

.A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozy blog "

Tom's voice is utterly convincing and it's a satisfying experience to watch Marchetta take a broken fragmented and frequently unlikable character and piece him back together, word by word...Outstanding fiction.'The Sunday Age"For all their talk of broken homes and migrant families, Marchetta's novels are fantasies of community and belonging."

The Weekend Australian

This story with its cast of rounded, beautifully crafted characters and dialogue shining with humor, pathos, and a vital spark, makes for a fiercely emotional and entertaining read."

Bookseller and Publisher

"The characters are amazing. Flawed, realistic and loveable. I admit after reading Saving Francesca I had a bit of a crush on Thomas Mackee and this book didn’t help with that.

Nic from Irresistible Reads  blog

Thomas Mackee wants oblivion. Wants to forget parents who leave and friends he used to care about and a string of one-night stands, and favourite uncles being blow to smithereens on their way to work on the other side of the world.

But when his flatmates turn him out of the house, Tom moves in with his single, pregnant aunt, Georgie. And starts working at the Union pub with  his former friends. And winds up with his grieving father again. And remembers how he walked away from Tara Finke two years ago, after his uncle's death.

In a year when everything's broken. Tom realises that his family and friends need him to help put the pieces back together as much as he needs them.

Extract from The  Piper's Son

Dear Finke

Flattered that you remember my obsession with Lenina Crowne. So I must have told you that Huxley's Brave New World was the porn of my Year Twelve year. Took me ages to work it out that it wasn't her physical description or sexual liberation or curiosity that turned me on, but the voice of the vixen who read the part of Lenina in 12A English every lesson for four weeks.

Tom

Dear Thomas

The only thing Lenina and I have in common is that we've both defied cultural conventions by dating one guy exclusively for several months. And we've both had misguided attractions to misfits in the past.

Tara Finke