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    Laura Buzo: Good Oil

    ‘I feel about this manuscript the way I felt about the first draft of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi. Here is a fresh, beautiful, young contemporary voice, a new writer with wonderful potential and a novel you can fall in love with. It is told in two voices — 15-year-old Amelia and 21-year-old Chris and is a wonderful portrait of an unconventional relationship. The style is smart and sophisticated, hip and accessible, warm and funny.’ — Erica Wagner, Publisher.


     
    ‘Miss Amelia Hayes, welcome to The Land of Dreams. I am the staff trainer. I will call you grasshopper and you will call me sensei and I will give you the good oil. Right? And just so you know, I’m open to all kinds of bribery.’

    From the moment 15-year-old Amelia begins work on the checkout at Woolworths she is sunk, gone, lost. head-over-heels in love with Chris.

    Chris is the funny, charming, man-about-Woolies — but he’s 21, and the six-year difference in their ages may as well be 100.

    Chris and Amelia talk about everything from ‘Second Wave Feminism’ to Great Expectations and Alien, but will he ever look at her in the way she wants him to? And if he does, will it be everything she hopes?

    A coming-of-age story that is warm, funny and a little bit heartbreaking.

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