The Madolescents
Author: Chrissie Glazebrook
Fresh, bittersweet and anarchic, this is a gloriously subversive black comedy.Meet Rowena Vincent: trainee mortician, aspiring beautician, serial shoplifter and Warrior Princess. Holed up with her mum in a Newcastle suburb and living on a steady diet of Bailey’s and chips, Rowena fantasizes about her absent dad and plans her own funeral music. But when she embarks on an en….Read More
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