Yet this year she discovers the truth about her family, meets her father, Michael Andretti, and comes to terms with the HSC and the people at school, boyfriends and interschool rivalries between her school and other nearby schools amidst debates and dating, and forging her way forward. Looking for Alibrandi is a modern Australian classic, centred on Josephine Alibrandi who is in her final year at a prestigious Catholic school, and she’s on the precipice of adulthood and moving to university, where she wants to study to become a barrister. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year she searches for Alibrandi and finds the real truth about her family – and the identity she has been searching for.Ī moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Synopsis: Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
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