Career
In 2013 her blog "Hey! Teenager of the Year" received about 12,000 hits per month. Bowe secured a book deal for her first novel Boy Saves Girl in 2010. lieutenant was a great success in Australia and New Zealand, and was translated to other languages such as Spanish, Dutch and Catalan.
Her second novel, was published in 2013.
She has appeared at Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, National Young Writers" Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival. She has been on two Australian radio programms: Triple J"s Hack (radio program) and Radio National"s Life Matters, and she has also appeared on television (Jennifer Byrne Presents, The Circle and Totally Wild).
Was Bowe"s debut novel. The principal character of the book, Sasha, is 17 years old, and he has a terminal disease, leukemia.
He tries to commit suicide in a lake near his house, but Jewel, a young girl of his age saves him when he is going to commit suicide.
Jewel is the other principal characters, and she has neither an easy life. Her grandparents also died, so she had to go to live with her mother. But the relationship with her mother isn"t very good.
After meeting in the lake, Sasha and Jewel will start a special friendship, and they will discover that there are a lot of things that they can’t fight with.
This story will speak about real friendship, love familiar conflicts.. and also about garden gnomes. Is the second novel of Steph Bowe.
lieutenant was published in 2013, and is a tale about dysfunctional families, trust and the importance of love. The principal character of the book is Nina, and also Spencer, a boy that she will meet later.