Jetty Rats

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| author = Phillip Gwynne

| cover_artist = Stella Danalis

| country = Australian

| language = English

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| set_in = Dogleg Bay (fictional)

| genre = Young adult fiction

| publisher = Penguin Books

| release_date = 6 February 2004

| media_type = Paperback

| pages = 256

| isbn = 9780143300496

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Jetty Rats is a 2004 young-adult fiction novel by Phillip Gwynne. It was his fourth published book, and his third for the young-adult genre. The story follows 13-year-old Hunter Vettori and his quest to catch a mulloway – an evasive fish he has been trying to catch for his whole life. The book is set in the fictional Dogleg Bay, a place with an aging population, where the biggest business is funeral directing.

Reception

Christopher Bantick of The Age opined: "The strength of Gwynne's storytelling is how it washes into us. Like a rock pool, the translucent depths of this fine novel are beguilingly deceptive."{{cite web |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/363617518|title= How to hook a rite of passage|last= Bantick|first= Christopher|date= 27 March 2004|website= The Age|publisher= |access-date= 20 March 2025|quote=}} Cindy Lord of The Courier-Mail wrote: "Jetty Rats, with its rich and earthy language, and wry observation of an increasingly marginalised country Australia and its "types", celebrates the originality of Australian speech."{{cite web |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/354204489|title= For younger readers|last= Lord|first= Cindy|date= 13 March 2004|website= The Courier-Mail|publisher= |access-date= 20 March 2025|quote=}} Mark McCann of The Sydney Morning Herald called it "funny", as well as "clever and insightful".{{cite web |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/363876734|title= Lessons learned on long walk home|last= McCann|first= Mark|date= 17 April 2004|website= The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher= |access-date= 20 March 2025|quote=}}

References

Category:Australian young adult novels

Category:2004 Australian novels