Find books like puberty blues from the worlds largest community of readers. Based on the iconic novel puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, the series will move beyond the original pages and explore the mis adventures of these young. People were shocked to read about casual sex of years olds and parents suddenly realized what was going on behind the closed doors of their teenagers bedrooms. Kathy lette and gabrielle carey are the authors of the book puberty blues. The novel is really a thinly veiled autobiography by lette and carey, who wrote the book when they were teenage girls in the shire themselves. But the book was also quickly hailed as a feminist manifesto and a cult classic.
Once they are accepted into the group, they realise that the groups laidback, ultracool facade is just that. First there was my actual puberty, then the book about it called puberty blues, a slim creation that speaks volumes its like straight literary vegemite, no butter followed by the bruce beresford film of the book and then, in my fifties, mid menopause, i relived it all again in the twentyhour tv miniseries which proved very. This new edition of puberty blues is published jointly by text publishing and random house australia, in time for the new channel 10 tv series screening from august 15 2012. Do you think the issues addressed in the book still exist today. Based on the iconic novel puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, the series will move beyond the original pages and explore the mis adventures. Puberty blues is an iconic australian movie and book and tv show that forever immortalised the youth culture of the late 70searly 80s, including the glorious slang. Download free puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle. This novel was the first teenage novel published in australia that was written by teenagers. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 3 on vimeo. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain. Puberty blues by carey, gabrielle and kathy lette and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming of age process. Puberty blues shows perhaps the best motherdaughter sex talk on television.
Puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughoutloud best sellers. It tells the story of two thirteenyear olds, debbie and sue, and the greenhills surf gang, which operates in. The book is autobiographical and details the secret lives led by the two teenage girls growing up near cronulla beach in the. When i read puberty blues by gabrielle carey and kathy lette at 14, i was shocked by what girls got up to in the big city. Puberty blues is a story about a nation growing up. Puberty blues 1981 was based on the book of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, a pair of reallife sydney teens who wrote newspaper articles under the. I cannot say that i was a part of the culture described in the book but i knew many people we were part of that scene. A television adaptation of the 1979 australian novel of the same name.
It was adapted into film in 1981 by bruce beresford and was made into a tv series in 2012 the novel and film focus on the two main characters, teenagers debbie vickers and sue knight, as they try and get in with the cool crowd, the green hills gang. Do you want to search free download puberty blues or free read online. Nell schofield and bruce beresford on location for puberty blues. He has high expectations of his son gary, coupled with a.
Ferris hennessey is a character on channel tens puberty blues. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was. Puberty blues is the biography which launched kathy lettes writing career and made her famous. Download free puberty blues you can download free book and read puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle carey for free here. Sue knight puberty blues wiki fandom powered by wikia. The book and sex itself becomes a hot topic of conversation between sue and. Two years earlier albie thoms palm beach 1979 presented a much. She gets a boyfriend named danny dixon, but they eventually break up. Puberty blues 2012 puberty blues rodger corser puberty blues puberty blues 2012 daniel krige as chippy the cop on puberty blues. Gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughoutloud best sellers. Puberty blues shows perhaps the best motherdaughter sex. Coming of age in the 1970s, puberty blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who dont make it, in a world where only the gang and the surf count.
Kathy lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues. This is puberty blues series 2 episode 3 by glendyn ivin on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. As im mid menopause, its all very hormonally confusing. I cannot say that i was a part of the culture described in the book but. You are browsing the website, which contains photos and videos of nude celebrities. Network ten released the first episode exclusively to facebook users who liked the official puberty blues page prior to the premiere. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by gabrielle carey and kathy lette which is a protofeminist teen book about two year old girls, debbie vickers nell schofield and sue knight jad capelja, from the lower middle class sutherland shire in sydney. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey. Written in 1979, our narrator, thirteen year old debbie, tells us about the surfie culture in cronulla and the surrounding suburbs of southern sydney.
Watch full episodes of puberty blues on demand, plus photos, show news and more on tenplay. Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. Based on the iconic novel puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, the series will move beyond the original pages and explore the mis adventures of these young girls, their families and. Ferris hennessey puberty blues wiki fandom powered by. Yvonne hennesey is one of these and pam knight leaves work to become one. I reckon puberty blues is really iconically aussie, it has so much aussie stuff in it, from the food to the drinks to the phrases and all of that. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex. The sex, drugs and disobedience seemed as foreign to me as riding a horse. Puberty blues audiobook by kathy lette, gabrielle carey. The book and sex itself becomes a hot topic of conversation. The text publishing company and random house australia are delighted to announce that they have combined forces to publish the iconic puberty blues by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Written 20 years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. Puberty blues is an australian cultclassic and its the book that parents give to their children when they become a teenager to dissuade them from experimenting with drugs and sex. The book was released in 1979 when the girls were only 18 years old, and appeared on the big screen two years later.
Meanwhile, judys world is shaken over annies death and what appears to be martins infidelity. Soundtracks come back again written by ross wilson uncredited performed by daddy cool. Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia. Puberty blues 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Truth masquerades as fiction as kathy lette and gabrielle carey portray themselves, at thirteen years of age, as deb and sue in a tell all account of being a teenager in sydneys beachside suburbs during the 1970s. Puberty blues is, as shirley puts it, an australian cult classic. He is married to yvonne and father to surfer boy gary, but he is unhappy with family life and has become selfobsessed, angry, and a philanderer. I went to school in the 50s and 60s and puberty blues brought back a lot of memories. I think the follow up, menopause blues must be on the creative cards. This is kathy lettes first novel, written with her surfie chick friend gabrielle carey, when they were 18. There was my actual puberty, then the book, then the movie of the book directed by bruce beresford, and now the 8 hour mini series. I was a little bit older when i read this book and so i feel like i didnt get as much from it if i had read it at 15 or 16 but nevertheless, i consumed this book. Carey has since become a senior lecturer in the creative writing program at the university of technology sydney, studying james joyce and randolph.
Pam takes a moment to consider her response, before replying. Okay, boys can be terrible and sex with boys can be terrible too. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabriel. Puberty blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who dont quite make the cut. No beating around the bush when it comes to sex ed in puberty blues. Susie porters character hands her daughter brenna harding a copy of joy of sex in an episode of puberty blues instead of being shocked, her mother pam knight played by susie. The film is based on the 1979 novel puberty blues, by gabrielle carey and kathy lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel about two yearold girls from the lower middle class sutherland shire in. Gabrielle carey born 10 january 1959 is an australian writer noted for the teen novel, puberty blues, which she cowrote with kathy lette. Susan sue knight is a character on channel tens puberty blues. Puberty blues puberty blues is a 1981 australian comingofage film directed by bruce beresford. Puberty blues tv series 20122014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Goodreads members who liked puberty blues also liked. The book came under fire because of its sometimes dark nature and the fact the protagonists were only, so their age was raised to 16 for the movie. No beating around the bush when it comes to sex ed in. Sue knight brenna harding and her mum pam susie porter talk sex in an exclusive clip from tonights episode of.
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