![]() ![]() This is about her younger sister, Gemma, and the sweet, terrible, glorious year in which she blushed, crushed, and survived.Īt fourteen, Gemma's too old to be a flower girl. Ever since then, whenever anyone in her family gets overly emotional or upset, they say they're "chucking a birkett."įast forward to the present day, when Debbie announces that she's getting married to Brian, a man she's known for only one month.īut this isn't Debbie's story. After Debbie broke up with him, he serenaded her at midnight with twenty original poems based on her name, waking up her entire family and all of her neighbors in the process. Years ago, a girl name Debbie dated a boy named Birkett. Swans and tempests and camouflage, oh my! The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It (previously published as My Big Birkett in the author's native Australia) is a delicious blend of comedy and drama brought to life by a cast of outrageous characters, save one, who is trying her best to remain sane. ![]() ![]() I'm kicking things off with this review of a novel by Lisa Shanahan. I was flattered to have been selected to contribute to YA Books Central. ![]()
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