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  1. Jun 28, 2021 · Written in 1979, with a film in 1981 and a TV series in 2012, Puberty Blues is set in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney, Australia. It follows Deb and Sue, two thirteen-year-old teenagers who are obsessed with surf culture and straight-leg Levi’s. Sue and Deb are keen to become part of the Greenhill gang, the most popular girls and guys at school.

  2. May 6, 2023 · “Joyceans” was an important code-word for Gabrielle. She is still best known as the coauthor, with Kathy Lette, of Puberty Blues (1979), a book she wrote as a teenager.

  3. Jan 5, 2022 · Gabrielle Carey. Gabrielle Carey published her first co-written book, Puberty Blues, while still in her teens. She wrote biography, autobiography, memoir, essays and articles. Her book, Moving Among Strangers (UQP 2013), was the joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and short-listed for the 2015 National Biography Award.

  4. May 10, 2023 · Gabrielle Carey (left) and Kathy Lette co-authored Puberty Blues. By now her writing demonstrated a commitment to truth, no matter how painful for herself or confronting for her readers.

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  5. May 5, 2023 · The co-author of Puberty Blues, who turned her back on fiction to create an acclaimed body of non-fiction writing, has died. ... Together, they wrote columns for The Sun-Herald as the Salami ...

  6. May 5, 2023 · “We made some mischief and broke some barriers by writing Puberty Blues – our raw, earthy take on the brutal treatment of young women in the Australian surfing scene which is sadly, still so relevant” Lette wrote. Carey would write nine more books after Puberty Blueswith future success.

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  8. Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette. McPhee Gribble, 1979 - Fiction - 120 pages. Coming of age in the 1970s, Puberty Blues is about 'top chicks' and 'surfie spunks' and the kids who don't make it, in a world where only the gang and the surf count. It is a hilarious but horrifying account of the way many young people live, and some of them die.

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