Kathy Lette's first novel, written with her surfie chick friend Gabrielle Carey, when they were eighteen. Written twenty years ago, PUBERTY BLUES is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. PUBERTY BLUES is about 'top chicks' and 'surfie spunks' and the kids who don't quite make the cut: it recreates with fascinating honesty a world where only the gang and the surf count. It's a hilarious and horrifying account of the way many teenagers live...and some of them die. Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's insightful novel is as painfully true today as it ever was.
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Kathy Lette is the bestselling author of seven novels, including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows and - most recently - Nip 'n' Tuck. Mad Cows was also made into a motion picture starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel. Kathy lives in Hampstead, London, with her husband and two children. Gabrielle Carey lives in Sydney, writes books occasionally, and may or may not be related to Peter Carey.
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This book is about two thirteen year old girls who are best friends living in the 1970s and desperately want to be in the 'popular' group. They do anything they can to get the popular girls to notice them, and when they do get accepted into the group they have sex, do drugs, sneak out to go to parties and ditch school. This book is about learning that being popular is not everything in life, and if you make mistakes you can always learn from them and move on. This was and awesome read and definitely deserves five stars. I definitely recommend this book to mature girls.
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Sad, scary and readable. Give it to your ten-year-old daughter and tell her to talk to you before she contemplates doing any of these things, then give her a copy of Saving Ophelia.
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Timeless Aussie Humour
13 Jun 2004
By Nadia555
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Format:Paperback
"Puberty Blues" can be read in a few hours. It's a short novel, written in simple, yet clever teenage prose. The Aussie vernacular used in this book is hilarious, and Sydney-siders will definitely relate to its setting (Cronulla). Two 13 year old girls, Deb and Sue, seek to get out of "Dickheadland" and into the Greenhill gang who are surfie and respected. Puberty Blues marks the journey of 2 girls from "nurd" to "cool", and speaks in detail about the sacrifices they make to get there. They manage to snare cool boyfriends, but they must go to desperate lengths to keep them around and not get "dropped". The girls experiment with drugs, sex and relationships throughout the book. Watching them willingly subordinate themselves to their older boyfriends is tough on the reader, who has probably been there at one stage in her early life. Infact, much of the journey of these precocious girls is familiar and therefore absolutely relevant to adolescent females everywhere, especially Australia. It's like the feminized answer to J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye". The ending is satisfying and ultimately life-affirming. Overall, a thoroughly worthwhile book.
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bought this book in Brisbane
5 Mar 2006
By Juventino Manzano
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Format:Paperback
I bought this book while i was in australia in 1988 and I had never heard of it or the writer but I thought it was a wonderful book and the thing I liked best was that anyone who was growing up during those times attending school dealing with stupid peers parents pushing us around etc. could relate... i was 18 and found the thought of these girls trying for these guys to be sad but true... The appeal of the book for me was that the themes were "universal kid angst" (reminded me of the film "Over the Edge") and the ending is great! Worth a read for a bit of nostalgia of the 70s and 80s.
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Shock Value has Worn Off
17 April 2013
By Len Currie
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A rather crass enumeration of adolescent sexual encounters, with little to recommend it now that its shock value has eroded.
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