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Vintage (Australia)
05 January 2022
"A revolutionary and timeless tale of rebellion, surfing, and youthful discovery.

'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on Cronulla Beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while someone's parents were out - you paid off your friendship ring.'

For Deb and Sue, life is about surfies, panel vans, straight-leg Levis, nicking off from school, getting wasted, friendships and fitting in.

But why should guys have all the fun?

When Deb and Sue decide to take to the waves on boards, a whole culture is upturned.

Puberty Blues is raw, humorous and painfully honest.

An Australian classic that has been reimagined in film and on TV and shocking, exercising, empowering and entertaining readers for more than four decades.

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PRAISE FOR KATHY LETTE

""Funny, loud and uninhibited"" - Daily Telegraph ""... sharp, funny and very readable."" - Jo Brand ""One of the funniest authors of our time."" - Look Magazine ""Her jokes are inspired."" - Daily Mail

""I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated."" Kylie Minogue

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Imprint:   Vintage (Australia)
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   108g
ISBN:   9781761045684
ISBN 10:   1761045687
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kathy Lette (Author) Kathy Lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues. She is one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, paving the way for Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham. She first achieved succ s de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. After several years as a newspaper columnist and TV sitcom writer in America and Australia, she's written 11 international bestsellers in her characteristic witty voice, including Mad Cows, How to Kill Your Husband - and Other Handy Household Hints (staged by the Victorian opera) and The Boy Who Fell to Earth. She is known for her regular appearances on BBC and Sky news programmes. She is an ambassador for Women and Children First, Plan International, the White Ribbon Alliance and the NAS. Kathy Lette lives in London, and can often be found at The Savoy drinking a cocktail named after her. Kathy is an autodidact (a word she taught herself) but in 2010, received an honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent University. Visit her website at www.kathylette.com to read her hilarious blog, and find her on Twitter @KathyLette and Facebook /KathyLetteAuthor Gabrielle Carey (Author) Gabrielle Carey published her first co-written book, Puberty Blues, while still in her teens. She has since written biography, autobiography, memoir, essays and articles. Her book, Moving Among Strangers (UQP 2013), was the joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction and short-listed for the 2015 National Biography Award. Her essay 'Waking Up with James Joyce' was named a 'Notable Essay' by Best American Essays 2019. Her most recent book is a bibliomemoir - Only Happiness Here - in search of Elizabeth von Arnim (UQP 2020). For twenty-five years Gabrielle taught writing at various universities including the University of Canberra, the University of Western Sydney and the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney. She is now a full-time writer and vagabond scholar.

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