Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she wants Lena to rescue her from a rat, but really she wants Lena to make out with her. Eve wants to get Wallace alone at the strawberry farm. Olivia just wants to leave the haunted boarding school and go home. Bittersweet and intimate, comic and gothic, Dream Girl is a collection of stories about young women navigating desire in all its manifestations. In stories of romance and bad driving, ghosts and ghosting, playlists and competitive pet ownership, love never fails to leave its mark. ‘Dream Girl is a winning concoction – sweet, heady, funny, tight, sharp – wittily charting the lightweight antics of \”unattainably hot\” girls, wearing its love-bites saucily and watching its crushes play out with wry sidelong glances. Its stories start as they mean to go on – with charm, chic, laughter, skill and sting.’ -Tracey Slaughter
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Publication date: 11/05/2023
Dream Girl
by Joy Holley
Review by Isabelle
This chic collection is full of charm and laughter. Car crashes, hot girls and crushes galore. A definite read if you’re into strange and sensual things going down in Wellington!
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