'One of the most memorable YA books I've ever read. Vikki lives in the Adelaide foothills with her family. Her new novel, Inbetween Days, will be published in October 2015. Among other awards, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Prime Minister's Awards, 2013. Friday Brown was also an Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia, 2013. Vikki Wakefield's first young adult novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, as did her second novel, Friday Brown, in 2014. Why is the boy she sent Valentines to for years now suddenly a creep?Īnd who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night? Why is the monster dog Gargoyle hidden in the back shed? And she can't seem to find answers to all the new questions: Does this make her a drug runner? She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them. Her two older brothers are in prison, so now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother. Anywhere but home-in a dead suburb and with a mother who won't get off the couch. Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go. Rule number one: I will not turn out like my mother. In the end, the same things look entirely different. Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. Winner of the Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2012.
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