![]() ![]() This isn’t about teens hanging out in designer clothes and playing baseball with their parents on a Sunday afternoon. Things aren’t just glossed over or purified through a decency filter for the reader. What really spoke to me was the brash reality of Kate’s life. ![]() It’s about being fifteen and stupid, and lucky, and angry, and confused and frustrated. This was the story of socially awkward Goth girl, Kate, dealing with being kicked out of home, relating to a bunch of boarders and rectifying her home situation whilst dealing with her own crushing insecurities. I’m sure at least a couple of them aren’t really Australian but we have a tendency of just claiming people as our own – so just go with it. I think I can safely put up a big sign over Pip Harry’s name that says, “Watch This Space.”Īnd because Pip Harry is Australian – instead of being lauded as brilliant and fantasmazeballs, she just gets put in that neat little category of Great Australian Writers like Melina Marchetta, Kirsty Eagar, Markus Zusak, Garth Nix, Shirley Marr, Lucy Christopher and Laura Buzo. There was a reason that Melina Marchetta launched this book. ![]()
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