- Published: 27 November 2017
- ISBN: 9780143786979
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
After the Blues
- Published: 27 November 2017
- ISBN: 9780143786979
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
After the Blues, returns the setting to Australia and is a kind of follow-up to Puberty Blues. The surfie chicks, now older, are still struggling through relationships with men of epic insensitivity, very few of whom are aware of a different era. The book’s various chapters are written in different styles: first and third person, letters and a diary. The theme — of failed and failing relationships — and the humour found among even the most depressing situations provides the unity. Perhaps the most remarkable chapter is the first-person anecdote, Free Kick. Something of a literary tour de force, it is in the form of a revelation by a football groupie of the rules and the reality of the situation. Perhaps a few of Lette’s quips become a little wearing but most strike me as acute.
Bruce Beresford, The Australian