Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette, Gabrielle Carey

Puberty Blues

by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey

Kathy Lette's first novel, written with her surfie chick friend Gabrielle Carey, when they were eighteen.

PUBERTY BLUES is about 'top chicks' and 'surfie spunks' and the kids who don't quite make the cut: it recreates with fascinating honesty a world where only the gang and the surf count.

It's a hilarious and horrifying account of the way many teenagers live . . . and some of them die. Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's insightful novel is as painfully true today as it ever was.

Reviewed by Kelly on

2 of 5 stars

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Beyond the shock of how raw and blunt Puberty Blues is, I don't understand the hype. It just felt like an exaggerated stereotype of what some would call bogan culture sadly.

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