We open on blood. It's a powerful opening for a powerful story. Sophie is not even a teenager when she finds herself in a police station, blood and vomit splattering her favourite dress. Her mother dead. With nowhere else to go, Sophie is made a ward of the state and taken up into a world… Continue reading Stone Girl by Eleni Hale
It’s 1954. Elizabeta arrives at the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, a shy sixteen-year-old Hungarian girl, with her family, hoping for a new start. Walking through the streets of the camp she meets the Italian Iliana, the Greek Vasiliki and the daughter of the camp director, Frances and despite language barriers the girls become fast friends. But… Continue reading The Last of the Bonegilla Girls
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