
This book is about one such teenager named Lilly who suffers from one embarrassing situation after another. Perhaps age shows us that what we once thought was strange was actually unique. As we age we come to understand that those moments that made us cringe as children were not all that bad.

It seems to be a right of passage to have at least one embarrassing experience with a loved one.

It is often the typical nightmare of a teenager to have mom or dad pick them up at high school and show up in horrid clothes or greet them in some other bizarre manner. A brief moment in which they would either disappear or magically change overnight. She is unsurpassed in her ability to convey complex emotional states with acute understanding and compassion.Most of us have experienced some time in our lives when we wished we could change our families. She has worked as a teacher and librarian, and in Adult Education in Victoria and New South Wales.Ī major force in YA fiction both in Australia and internationally, Judith Clarke's novels include the multi-award-winning Wolf on the Fold, as well as Friend of my Heart, Night Train, Starry Nights, One Whole and Perfect Day, and the very popular and funny Al Capsella series. Judith Clarke was born in Sydney and educated at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University in Canberra. She is unsurpassed in her ability to convey complex emotional states with acute understanding and compassion.

A major force in YA fiction both in Australia and internationally, Judith Clarke's novels include the multi-award-winning Wolf on the Fold, as well as Friend of my Heart, Night Train, Starry Nights, One Whole and Perfect Day, and the very popular and funny Al Capsella series. She has worked as a teacher and librarian, and in Adult Education in Victoria and New South Wales.

