It’s somewhere in this vein that Erin Gough’s latest book Amelia Westlake comes in. Because again, teenage girls do weird shit.

It made me want to pick up some bulk-bought, lined Officeworks paper and a pen. In that moment, I saw the monetary value that had been placed on private education … and knew that the same value had never been placed on mine. But walking past the music department at Carey, looking in the windows, we counted four in white-walled, separate rooms. My high school had just put on a direct-from-Savers run of Oklahoma and was now running a school-wide fundraising drive to raise money to buy a baby grand. In year twelve some friends and I went to see Carey Grammar School’s production of Chicago. I can also remember the first time I visited a private school. Unfortunately, my friend is now a working professional who took down all the weird stuff we posted online in high school, but the moral (if there is one) – teenage girls do weird shit. The titular character WYS NERO was a round, potato-like creature with giant circular eyes, eating a blue-pen rendered raw onion. And by ‘wrote a comic’ I mean she illustrated and wrote it and I, thinking it was a stroke of genius, shared it with all our friends. When I was 13, my best friend and I wrote a comic. I would also like to pay my respects to their Elders, Wurundjeri people and acknowledges them as the traditional owners of this land,

But as tensions burn throughout their school-who is Amelia Westlake?-and between Harriet and Will, how long can they keep their secret? How far will they go to make a difference? And when will they realize they’re falling for each other?Īward-winning author Erin Gough’s Amelia Westlake Was Never Here is a funny, smart, and all-too-timely story of girls fighting back against power and privilege-and finding love while they’re at it.The Lit Sponge is written on the lands of the When their swim coach’s inappropriate behavior is swept under the rug, the unlikely duo reluctantly team up to expose his misdeeds, pulling provocative pranks and creating the instantly legendary Amelia Westlake-an imaginary student who helps right the many wrongs of their privileged institution. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who’s never met an injustice she didn’t fight.

Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving.

A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can’t stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.

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