Melina Marchetta’s stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl’s story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls’ school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year she searches for Alibrandi and finds the real truth about her family – and the identity she has been searching for.
A moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
Reviews
“A sensational debut.”
Herald Sun
“A novel to rejoice in. A story from the heart.”
Australian Bookseller and Publisher
“Award-winning Australian author Melina Marchetta has created a strong and sassy role model in Josephine, whom girls with growing pains on both sides of the Pacific will love. With its accurate and insightful portrayal of a young woman’s coming of age, Looking for Alibrandi will have female teens waiting eagerly for Marchetta’s next novel.”
Amazon.com
“An extraordinarily intelligent and passionate novel, written with remarkable self assurance.”
The Age
Melina Marchetta 
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