I have just finished The Long Prospect, a terribly bleak book by Elizabeth Harrower which has been described as "an elegant evocation of the oppressive and damaging life in Australian suburbia during the 1950s" (Open Learning Radio National programme on Australian literature since 1950). All hope of a happy family life for Emily seemed to be dashed by the end in this book; dreadful.
Now to Melina Marchetta's Looking for Alibrandi "now a major film" and from the YF (youth fiction?) section of the library. Let's hope it's a bit of fun as the cover suggests; please?
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