It’s a fresh and engaging exploration of the challenges and pressures for young women growing up in the past and today. Narrated in alternating chapters by Cat and Fanny, Elsewhere Girls is a moving and funny story of two girls with a deep connection, one based on the Australian Olympic champion, Fanny Durack. Cassandra Morris can be seen and heard on television and radio. Its the weekly news quiz - how closely have you been paying attention to whats been going on in the world over the past seven days If you cannot see the quiz, follow this link. The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the 1 New York Times bestselling master of. Of her writing, the New York Times Book Review said: Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities. In Elsewhere, we meet Jeffy Coltrane and his young daughter, Amity, trying to move on from the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, Michelle, Amity’s mum.A homeless eccentric, Ed Spooky, tells Jeffy he’s being hunted and hands him the key to everything, an object like a remote control for a TV, but making Jeffy swear not to do anything with it. But one day, time slips and they swap places.Īs each girl lives the other’s life, with all the challenges and confusion it presents, she comes to appreciate and understand herself and the role of swimming in her own life. Gabrielle Zevin is an award-winning screenwriter and author whose novels for young adults include Elsewhere and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. They both live in the same Sydney suburb, but in different worlds, or at least different times: Cat in current-day Sydney, and Fanny in 1908. Fanny loves to swim and she lives for racing, but family chores and low expectations for girls make it very hard for her to fit in even the occasional training session.Ĭat and Fanny have never met. Coach O'Call would say something like, ‘That’s not what I expect from a scholarship girl!’ because I have to be up for squad training in five hours and I’m not supposed to go near potato scallops, and-oh, yeah-it’s my fifth.Ĭat has recently started at a new school on a sports scholarship, and she’s feeling the pressure of early morning training sessions and the need for total commitment. ELSEWHERE, by Alexis Schaitkin One of the many advantages of writing in the speculative realm is the opportunity to clear the decks of societal expectations. It’s midnight and I’m alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop.
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