Digging to Australia

by Lesley Glaister

Book Overview

On the brink of adolescence, the slightly confused Jennifer finds her world torn apart by recent revelations about her family's past, and she seeks to escape that past in her fantasies. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689121628
• ISBN13: 9780689121623
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

It is lurid, loud and enormously enjoyable!

The narrator is a girl named Jennifer, who is on the brink of adolescence. Her home life is somewhat strange ( her father, Bob, insists on naked calishtenics every morning for the whole family and her gray-haired mother placidly goes along ) , she has no friends and yearns to be normal. And then her already off-center world is thrown completely topsy-turvy when she learns that her supposed parents are really her grandparents, that her mother fled years ago, and that, worse yet for someone about to turn thirteen, her real birthday is now much later in the year. Seeking escape both in her fantasies ---- her favorite book has long been "Alice in Wonderland" ---- and in real life ---- through her friendship with obsequious new schoolmate, Bronwyn, and with the sinister Johnny, who dwells in a forgotten, never-consecrated church ---- Jennifer is about to undergo her own adventures in her own wonderland, with terrifying and final consequences she cannot ( yet ) even imagine. I loved it and I recommend it to people of all ages