It's Matt Hudson's fifteenth birthday and all he wants is some art lessons. Instead, he gets a card from his dead mother. Matt begins to question everything – his past, his future, himself. Writing letters to Leonardo da Vinci seems to help sort out the mess in his head. And the awful truth Matt uncovers will change his life.

Letters to Leonardo is a confronting coming-of-age novel by Australian author Dee White. This young adult fiction book about a teenage boy coping with mental illness, abandonment and grief is a unique and powerful contemporary story told in an engaging, realistic way. To read more about the author, visit deescribe.com.au