Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Book review: Looking for Alibrandi

“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. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls' school. 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”.
- Penguins Books.
A moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
The novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ is widely used in High-schools across Australia as a part of the English curriculum ‘study of Novel’ as it is relevant and explores a range of themes with an interesting plot synopsis.

The novel was extremely successful and became a film in 2004 as Josie was brought to life through the use of lighting, music and sound techniques the viewer could engage with the meaningful text on a deeper level.

Watch the 2004 movie trailer here:


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