The golden child / Wendy James.
Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2017.Description: 338 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781460752371 :
- Teenagers
- Families
- Australian fiction
- Bullying
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction
- Bullying
- Families
- Teenagers
- Families -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Bullying -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Cyberbullying -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Australian
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | JAM | Available | 065809 |
"Can bad children happen to good mothers?" -- Cover.
Blogger Lizzy's life is buzzing, happy, normal. Two gorgeous children, a handsome husband, destiny under control. For her real-life alter-ego Beth, things are unravelling. Tensions are simmering with her husband, mother-in-law and even her own mother. Her teenage daughters, once the objects of her existence, have moved beyond her grasp and one of them has shown signs of, well, thoughtlessness ...Then a classmate of one daughter is callously bullied and the finger of blame is pointed at Beth's clever, beautiful child. Shattered, shamed and frightened, two families must negotiate worlds of cruelty they are totally ill-equipped for. This is a novel that grapples with modern-day spectres of selfies, selfishness and cyberbullying. It plays with our fears of parenting, social media and Queen Bees, and it asks the question: just how well do you know your child?