Kathy Lette's and Gabrielle Carey's novel, Puberty Blues, is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970's that took Australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie.
It also marked the starting point of Kathy Lette's writing career, which sees her now as an author at the forefront of her field.
Puberty Blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who dont quite make the it recreates with fascinating honesty a world where only the gang and the surf count. Its a hilarious and horrifying account of the way many teenagers live and some of them die.
Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's insightful novel is as painfully true today as it ever was.
