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Learn moreLincoln Locke's fifteen-year-old life is turned upside down when he's thrust into bachelor-pad living with his father, after his parents' marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers Lincoln a new set of peers - the cr�me de la cr�me of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded - and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside his head, doesn't make life any easier; nor does Lincoln's growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn.
On a search for answers to big LIFE questions, he turns to the school library, where he spies a nineteenth-century memoir, My One Redeeming Affliction by Edwin Stroud, a one-time star of Melinkoff's Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. As Lincoln slowly reads this peculiar, life-changing book, the past reaches into his present in fascinating and alarming ways.
Ways that defy imagination . . .
Audacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, The Origin of Me is a song to friendship, to young love, to the joy of imagination, and to celebrating differences.
Bernard Gallate (Author)
Bernard Gallate began his professional life in the animation industry with Hanna-Barbera, later working for Disney and a multimedia agency. After studying acting, he ran climbing tours of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for six years while writing and illustrating books for younger readers. Bernard currently teaches programs on early Sydney life and archaeology at historical sites across the city. The Origin of Me is his first novel.
Thomas Larkin (Reader)
Thomas Larkin is an award-winning actor, voice artist, and arts educator. A graduate of the Victorian College of Arts (VCA), his professional career spans over a decade. Highlights include lead roles in productions of Death of a Salesman (Queensland Theatre), As You Like It (La Boite Theatre Company) and True West (Brisbane Powerhouse). He is fast becoming a sought-after voice artist, working with BMW, TattsLotto and Beyond Blue. Such experiences have also seen Thomas develop an extensive portfolio of clients as a teaching artist and acting coach, working across school, performing arts and corporate contexts. He is one of five Co-Directors of Brisbane-based theatre collective MYTHS MADE HERE who, in 2020, will stage MEDEA, written by Kate Mulvany & Anne-Louise Sarks at QPAC's Cremorne Theatre.
Thomas can next be seen as Luca in the highly-anticipated new web series Sexy Nails, produced by Photoplay Films and directed by Tom Slater.
Bernard Gallate (Author)
Bernard Gallate began his professional life in the animation industry with Hanna-Barbera, later working for Disney and a multimedia agency. After studying acting, he ran climbing tours of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for six years while writing and illustrating books for younger readers. Bernard currently teaches programs on early Sydney life and archaeology at historical sites across the city. The Origin of Me is his first novel.
Thomas Larkin (Reader)
Thomas Larkin is an award-winning actor, voice artist, and arts educator. A graduate of the Victorian College of Arts (VCA), his professional career spans over a decade. Highlights include lead roles in productions of Death of a Salesman (Queensland Theatre), As You Like It (La Boite Theatre Company) and True West (Brisbane Powerhouse). He is fast becoming a sought-after voice artist, working with BMW, TattsLotto and Beyond Blue. Such experiences have also seen Thomas develop an extensive portfolio of clients as a teaching artist and acting coach, working across school, performing arts and corporate contexts. He is one of five Co-Directors of Brisbane-based theatre collective MYTHS MADE HERE who, in 2020, will stage MEDEA, written by Kate Mulvany & Anne-Louise Sarks at QPAC's Cremorne Theatre.
Thomas can next be seen as Luca in the highly-anticipated new web series Sexy Nails, produced by Photoplay Films and directed by Tom Slater.