![]() ![]() … Back at Christ Our Saviour, it was okay to drift in and out of friendship groups, so long as you weren’t a backstabber or someone with an annoying habit like a tendency to squeal in a high-pitched voice or lie pathologically about your boyfriends… At Laurinda it didn’t happen like that. ![]() ![]() But the girls at Laurinda have never been to Stanley, and Laurinda is nothing like Christ Our Saviour. But before Lucy can start thinking about university and her future career, she has to survive Laurinda.Īt her old Catholic school, Christ Our Saviour, Lucy was a leader among her peers. Fitting in was easy because even though her friends didn’t all share her cultural background, most of their parents were also new to Australia and they’d grown up in working-class Stanley, just like her. They see Lucy’s scholarship as her ticket out of the western suburbs. Margot McGovern reviews Alice Pung’s YA novel, Laurinda.įifteen-year-old Lucy Lam can’t believe her luck when she wins a scholarship to Laurinda, one of the city’s most exclusive private schools. And her family couldn’t be prouder: having arrived as refugees from Vietnam a decade earlier, her father is a factory shift worker and her mother fills illegal sewing orders for designer brands in their back shed. ![]()
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