Puberty Blues

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A publishing phenomenon in Lettes native Australia, this hilarious and powerful novel is as painfully true today as when it was first published. For wannabe top chicks Deb and Sue, their goal in life is clear: to be accepted into the coolest surfie gang in town. To graduate into this sexy, enticing world, the rules are simple. You have to be desired by one of the surfie boys, be just skinny enough, do the Scotch drawback and know all about sex.

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Kathy Lette first achieved succs 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 television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she wrote ten international bestsellers including Mad Cows (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel), How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy Household Hints (recently staged by the Victorian Opera, Australia), and To Love, Honour and Betray. Her novels have been published in fourteen languages around the world. Kathy appears regularly as a guest on the BBC and Sky News. She is also an ambassador for Women and Children First, Plan International and the White Ribbon Alliance. In 2004 she was the London Savoy Hotels Writer in Residence. In 2010 she received an honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent University. Gabrielle Carey co-wrote Puberty Blues with Kathy Lette when they were both teenagers. She has two children, and lives in Sydney. She is a freelance writer, and her articles have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and other publications. She currently works as a lecturer in writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her books include In My Father's House and The Borrowed Girl and her most recent book, Waiting Room, is a personal essay about her late mother, Joan Carey.