hat is paradise for a fourteen-year-old boy? For Conrad it's definitely not dusty Los Angeles, where he's stuck living with his mother and his cheeky little sisters. Paradise is the forest where his dad still lives, by the water where everything is beautiful, where he belongs. * : Winner of Best First Book (fiction) : Finalist, General Fiction : Finalist in two categories - Fiction (over 80,000 words) and First Novel (over 90,000 words)