The good oil
Shortlist year:
2011
Shortlist category:
Young adult literature
Published by:
Allen and Unwin
About the book
From the moment 15-year-old Amelia begins work on the checkout at Woolworths she is sunk, gone, lost.head-over-heels in love with Chris. Chris is the funny, charming man-about-Woolies, but he's 21, and the six-year difference in their ages may as well be 100. Chris and Amelia talk about everything from Second Wave Feminism to Great Expectations and Alien but will he ever look at her in the way she wants him to? And if he does, will it be everything she hopes?
About the author
Laura Buzo
Laura Buzo was born and grew up in Sydney, where she now lives with her daughter. The Good Oil was her first novel. Her second, Holier Than Thou was published in 2012.
