West Girls
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I’d choose it again.’
Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren’t, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic’ beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu’ and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she’s sacrificed — and who she’s become — in her mission to conquer the world.
Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility. It’s also a devastating catalogue of the myriad, inventive ways in which women love and hurt one another.
‘What a talent! It’s rare indeed to find a book this intelligent and this wickedly addictive. West Girls is dark as a mining magnate’s soul, cackle-out-loud funny, and so smart it stings. Ah-mazing!’
- Release
- Aug-2023
- ISBN
- 9781922585905
- RRP (AUD)
- $32.99
- Pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Category
- Fiction
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and two novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018) and The Newcomer (Scribe, 2021). Laura was the City of Melbourne’s 2020 Boyd Garret writer-in-residence and a 2020-22 Marten Bequest scholar for prose.
Scribe Publications
Scribe publishes books that matter—narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international, and translated fiction.
