From the Bookshelf of Aussie Readers…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
I really didn’t like this book. I couldn’t seem to warm to any of the characters, let alone the main character. Robbie was fourteen, just going into high school, and had developed a crush on his English teacher, Miss Peach. But Robbie was an extremely selfish, self-centred boy (more so than usual I think!) He and his best friend Billy Currie, an Aboriginal, had been mates for a very long time, ever since Billy and his family came to Penola, in SA, from the Mission. But Robbie had no hesitation i
...more
Peter Goldsworthy's novels are among my favourites, and Everything I Knew is no exception.
Set in country South Australia in the 1960's, the book is told through the eyes of a 14 year old schoolboy who is not only a flawed observer but a participant in a chain of events he does not fully understand at the time, and which in a later decade would not have had the same consequences.
I found it hard to put down, and with an unexpectedly heart-wrenching final section , this book had me fully immersed.
T ...more
Set in country South Australia in the 1960's, the book is told through the eyes of a 14 year old schoolboy who is not only a flawed observer but a participant in a chain of events he does not fully understand at the time, and which in a later decade would not have had the same consequences.
I found it hard to put down, and with an unexpectedly heart-wrenching final section , this book had me fully immersed.
T ...more
Nov 30, 2009
Blue Eyed Vixen
marked it as to-read
Jun 23, 2010
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
marked it as to-read
Apr 24, 2011
Robyn
added it
