Girl Defective
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2014
320 pages
978-1-4424-9762-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the tradition of High Fidelity and Empire Records, this is the literary soundtrack to Skylark Martin's strange, mysterious, and extraordinary summer.
This is the story of a wild girl and a ghost girl; a boy who knew nothing and a boy who thought he knew everything.
It's a story about Skylark Martin, who lives with her father and brother in a vintage record shop and is trying to find her place in the world. It's about ten-year-old Super Agent Gully and his case of a lifetime. And about beautiful, reckless, sharp-as-knives Nancy. It's about tragi-hot Luke, and just-plain-tragic Mia Casey. It's about the dark underbelly of a curious Australian neighborhood. It's about summer, and weirdness, and mystery, and music.
And it's about life and death and grief and romance. All the good stuff.
This is the story of a wild girl and a ghost girl; a boy who knew nothing and a boy who thought he knew everything.
It's a story about Skylark Martin, who lives with her father and brother in a vintage record shop and is trying to find her place in the world. It's about ten-year-old Super Agent Gully and his case of a lifetime. And about beautiful, reckless, sharp-as-knives Nancy. It's about tragi-hot Luke, and just-plain-tragic Mia Casey. It's about the dark underbelly of a curious Australian neighborhood. It's about summer, and weirdness, and mystery, and music.
And it's about life and death and grief and romance. All the good stuff.
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Simmone Howell is the award-winning author of Notes from the Teenage Underground and Everything Beautiful. Before becoming a writer she worked in a multitude of secondhand bookstores and record shops, and as a result her house looks like one. She lives with her husband and son and crazy dog in Melbourne, Australia. Visit her at SimmoneHowell.com.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Bill's Wishing Well
- Part One
- Chapter 2: Up above the Weird
- Chapter 3: Retro Girls
- Chapter 4: Anarchy
- Chapter 5: The Old Punk Days
- Chapter 6: Memo #1
- Chapter 7: Family Sticks Together
- Chapter 8: Ritual Days
- Chapter 9: Life Lessons
- Chapter 10: Ask Me Anything
- Chapter 11: The Red Shoe Is in the Grass
- Chapter 12: A Sort of Sickness
- Chapter 13: Total Catnip
- Chapter 14: Barbarians
- Chapter 15: The Girlfriends of Otis
- Chapter 16: Desperate Animals
- Part Two
- Chapter 17: A Level of Discomfort
- Chapter 18: Don't Engage
- Chapter 19: Soft-boiled
- Chapter 20: Fightin' Words
- Chapter 21: Black Heat
- Chapter 22: Memo from Agent Seagull Martin
- Chapter 23: Recon #1: Council Offices
- Chapter 24: Luke on Fast-forward
- Chapter 25: Memo #2
- Chapter 26: Recon #2: Vale and Greeves
- Chapter 27: Ugly Mugs
- Chapter 28: The Whole Vinyl Experience
- Chapter 29: Matching Mohawks
- Chapter 30: Memo from Agent Seagull Martin
- Chapter 31: Catsuits and Whirly-winds
- Part Three
- Chapter 32: Memo #3
- Chapter 33: Otisworld
- Chapter 34: Nothing or Something
- Chapter 35: Crazy People
- Chapter 36: Under the Sea
- Chapter 37: Love Live Local
- Chapter 38: Recon #3: Luna Park
- Chapter 39: A Real Good Time
- Chapter 40: Aftermath
- Part Four
- Chapter 41: Memo #4
- Chapter 42: Holy Grail
- Chapter 43: Sky's Wishing Well
- Chapter 44: A Dare and a Dream
- Chapter 45: Baby Elephant Trauma
- Chapter 46: Cracking Up
- Chapter 47: Mugs and Marks
- Chapter 48: Midnight Confessions
- Chapter 49: The End of Viny
- Chapter 50: Fallen Robins
- Chapter 51: A Minute's Silence
- Chapter 52: The World Is a Terrible Place
- Chapter 53: Memo #5
- Chapter 54: Everybody Hates Nancy
- Chapter 55: "In the Jailhouse Now"
- Chapter 56: The Grace of Bob
- Chapter 57: Fade and Bloom
- Acknowledgments
- About Simmone Howell
- Copyright
