I loved reading this! And reading yours & Penni’s together, too, I feel like you are unwittingly in conversation with each other as well as the book, and Blume. Australia is lucky to be so rich in our YA/children’s writers. And I love both your brains.
She really is a special author because she addressed issues that no one else was talking about, and acknowledged the agency of teenagers at a time when no one paid attention.
Wonderful, Simmone. Thank you for this delightful and deeply thoughtful review.
I so loved her books, especially Deenie. There seemed so relatively few books like hers, then. Thanks for this illuminating review.
I loved reading this! And reading yours & Penni’s together, too, I feel like you are unwittingly in conversation with each other as well as the book, and Blume. Australia is lucky to be so rich in our YA/children’s writers. And I love both your brains.
layers upon layers!!
She really is a special author because she addressed issues that no one else was talking about, and acknowledged the agency of teenagers at a time when no one paid attention.