Synopsis
Growing up during the 1980s in the safe complacency of the Australian suburbs, Plum Coyle should be happy. But on the cusp of her fourteenth birthday - and on the fringe of her peer group - she lives in terror of the disapproval of her cruel and fickle girlfriends, and most of all, she hates her awkward, changing body with a passion.
So when Plum's glamorous next-door neighbour Maureen, a young wife and mother, befriends Plum, Plum responds with worshipful fervour. Plum feels herself reinvented. With Maureen, she becomes the girl she's always wanted to be. But Maureen has an ulterior motive for taking Plum under her wing . . .
Anna Kelly, Editorial Assistant, on Butterfly:
'What’s great about Butterfly it is that everything in it is so ordinary and easy to recognise – going to school, doing homework and squabbling with siblings – but it’s all seen through such a perceptive and imaginative eye that the emotional immensity of the most mundane of moments is teased out to the max and you realise how much is going on underneath the surface of everything, all the time. This book pins its characters to the page and lets them squirm. It’s utterly addictive, dark and brilliant.'
» Read the first few pages of Butterfly by downloading the Penguin Taster here
Reviews
Customer Review: 06 April 2009
Reviewer: M.Litchfield
'I really liked this book - it''s easy to epathise with. I hope other people like it too'
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Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780241144466
Size : 135 x 216mm
Pages : 224
Published : 02 Apr 2009
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
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