Perfect On Paper
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley March 14, 2021
Author Sophie Gonzales
Distributor: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9781444959277
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Release Date: March 2021
Website: https://www.hachette.com.au
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Locker 89 is the best kept secret at school until it isn’t, and once the secret is out, even if it is only out by one other person knowing who is behind Locker 89, it is enough to put the life and times of one Darcy Phillips into a complete state of chaos; not at all what she expected when she set out to help her friends sort out their often troubled love lives and friendships.
Locker 89 came about almost by accident and for the small fee of ten dollars, a question could be asked and a reply sent, simply by posting the letter into Locker 89. Darcy loved helping with others relationship problems taking time and considerable pride in working out answers to problems, while learning much about people and friendships along the way. She felt a great sense of a’ job well done’ when things worked out either way for them.
Her life is complicated in many ways on a personal level, as she considers she is bi-sexual, her sister is trans-gender, her parents are divorced and she has more than just friendship feelings for her best friend Brooke, who for one reason or another only wants to be good friends, nothing more.
Her well-ordered life is thrown into disorder when Alexander Brougham, the new kid from Australia, discovers who she is and demands, with a good fee attached, she help him sort out his relationship with his girlfriend who has ditched him.
But as the days and weeks roll along their ‘friendship’ becomes an interesting tangle of emotions, disaster, and a true understanding of what friendship, real friendship is all about, as the fallout from Locker 89 was incredible traumatic and never seems to end.
So many aspects of growing up in a world of diversification, change, challenge, domestic violence and sexual diversification are cleverly used as anchors in this totally charming, quirky and heart-warming story Perfect on Paper from beloved teen author Sophie Gonzales.
Was Alexander Brougham erupting into the life of Darcy Phillips a good thing or not? Well maybe you better get reading to find out exactly what happens when what seems to be nothing but a disaster morphs into something else entirely. Quirky! Yep!