I can honestly and proudly say that Ballad for a Mad Girl is my new favourite book of hers. Her writing style is one of the greatest I've had the pleasure of reading and her characters are relatable and real. Vikki Wakefield is an auto-buy author for me. This book is fucking fantastic and if you want to read something that is YA, Australia, a little spooky and wholly emotional then for the love of all bookish gods, PICK THIS BOOK UP. Is she moving closer to the truth? Or is she heading for madness?ĪLRIGHT LISTEN UP BOOK NERDS. Grace is losing herself, and her friends don’t understand. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price.Įverything about her is changing-her body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. She can no longer tell what’s real or imagined-all she knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. She’s haunted by voices and visions-but nobody believes a girl who cries wolf.Īs she’s drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. That night she experiences something she can’t explain. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. She’s a prankster and a risk-taker, and she’s not afraid of anything-except losing. Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad.
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