5/19/2023 0 Comments Laurinda by alice pung![]() There was an A4 sign stuck to the door: YEAR TEN SCHOLARSHIP EXAMS THIS WAY. ![]() ![]() We could make fun of it because we knew we’d never enter the school itself, only the gym, a massive windowless box that looked like a giant’s shipping container. It was beautiful, but as it was guarded by a gate and set against the enormous lawn, the beauty snuck up on you, like a femme fatale with a rock. I could imagine young ladies in white gloves with lace slingshots, lying in wait to kill a mockingbird or two. I thought to myself that in a black and white photograph, it could be mistaken for the main house of a plantation in the deep south of America. This place is giving us the finger! you squawked when you first saw it, Linh. Then there was the main building: four sections of sandstone brick and the giant cream tower in the centre. No “Ladies College” after it, of course the name was meant to speak for itself. ![]() When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the enormous sign in iron cursive letters spelling out LAURINDA. In anticipation of the release of this new young adult novel later this month, you can read an extract below. ![]() In Laurinda, Alice Pung tells an involving, original story that captures the drama and pain of school life today, as well as revealing much about the choices of young women. ![]()
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