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A review by n3lla
Wildlife by Fiona Wood
5.0
I enjoyed Six Impossible Things immensely and was really looking forward to seeing Fiona Wood at Reading Matters this year. Then, the lovely Robin Clark from Macmillan gave me a reading copy of Wildlife. Wow – Fiona Wood hasn’t lost her touch.
Instead of going on exchange to France as her friends, Dan, Estelle and Janie have done, a grieving Lou transfers to her mother’s old school for the wilderness experience/”jolly outdoorsy camp” term. There she is in a hut with Sibylla and Holly, the wickedest “best friend” since Iago. Sibylla is learning how to cope with her new found fame – being a billboard model for a perfume ad and kissing Ben Capaldi, the most popular boy in the year level. Michael, Sibylla’s real best friend, a nerdy runner, is the other main character in this contemporary boarding school style novel. The writing is unpretentious and realistic; the characterisation is perfect A poignant novel.
Instead of going on exchange to France as her friends, Dan, Estelle and Janie have done, a grieving Lou transfers to her mother’s old school for the wilderness experience/”jolly outdoorsy camp” term. There she is in a hut with Sibylla and Holly, the wickedest “best friend” since Iago. Sibylla is learning how to cope with her new found fame – being a billboard model for a perfume ad and kissing Ben Capaldi, the most popular boy in the year level. Michael, Sibylla’s real best friend, a nerdy runner, is the other main character in this contemporary boarding school style novel. The writing is unpretentious and realistic; the characterisation is perfect A poignant novel.