A sharp impact near my ribs knocks me sideways and the pipe seems to buckle and twist. Is she moving closer to the truth? Or is she heading for madness? I trace the word with my finger. Grace is losing herself, and her friends don't understand. Everything about her is changing-her body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price. She can no longer tell what's real or imagined-all she knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. As she's drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. She's haunted by voices and visions-but nobody believes a girl who cries wolf. That night she experiences something she can't explain. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. She's a prankster and a risk-taker, and she's not afraid of anything-except losing. Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, Įveryone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia.(See interview, page 48.Ballad for a Mad Girl / Vikki Wakefield Book Bib IDīook, Online, Online - Google Books All I Ever Wanted is a brilliant coming-of-age novel for teens which, like Honey Browns The Good Daughter, might be enjoyed by adults too.
Though Mim makes mistakes, and plenty of them, this novel contains none.
The rules Mim lives by turn out to be useful only as each one is broken. Mims neighbourhood is peopled with bizarre characters who bring this teen novel to life with warmth and humour.
But then a new friend s support gives her the bravery to stick to her guns, and the phone-sex worker next door, who is studying to be a nurse, teaches her not to judge by outward appearances. Mim has lived her young life by a set of rules, which she believes will help her escape her mother s fate. When Mim loses a package of happy pills that her drug-dealer mother has asked her to pick up, it begins a train of events that gives her the shove from fate she s been waiting for all her life. I read this novel in one gulp, loving every moment of the narrator s voice and the strangeness of her impoverished life.
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