The Build-Up Season

Author(s): Megan Jacobson

Young Adult

He's back.
The monster.
It's the middle of the night and I'm awake, because even though I'm seventeen I still haven't outgrown the childhood monster that haunts you in the dark. I haven't outgrown it, because when I was a child, the monster was real.
He was my father.
But the thing is, the monster was the person I was closest to in the whole world, closer than I've been to anyone since.
That will tell you everything you need to know about me.
And still, I wouldn't hesitate to kill the monster.
That will tell you even more about me.
Seventeen-year-old Iliad Piper is named after war and angry at the world. Growing up with a violent father and abused mother, she doesn't know how to do relationships, family or friends. A love-hate friendship with Max turns into a prank war, and she nearly destroys her first true friendship with misfit Mia. Ily takes off her armour for nobody, until she meets Jared, someone who's as complicated as she is.

General Information

  • : 9780143573388
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books
  • : 0.197
  • : July 2017
  • : 196mm X 129mm X 24mm
  • : Australia
  • : July 2017
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Megan Jacobson
  • : Paperback
  • : 817
  • : en
  • : 272

More About The Product

Megan Jacobson grew up in Darwin and the far north coast of New South Wales, but now lives in Sydney, where she works in TV news production at the ABC. She has a degree in journalism and has worked as a question writer for TV game shows, and as an in-house script storyliner and script editor for several Australian television dramas. Her short stories have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, aired on ABC radio, appeared in the UTS writers' anthology I can see my house from here and in the Review of Australian Fiction. Her first novel Yellow was shortlisted in the Older Readers category of the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards.