Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. Actress pearl herbert puberty blues arrives on the red carpet at the australian premiere of new disney pixar film inside out at event cinemas, george street. The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of sydney. Pearl herbert, izzy stevens, ellie gale, brenna harding, tyler atkins and isabelle cornish star in puberty blues part of the challenge was going to be conveying the books key elements. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 1 on vimeo. A comingofage film with bite, puberty blues is set in the 1970s and follows the misadventures of debbie and sue, two cronulla girls angling to break out of dickheadland into the coolest surfie gang. Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia.
Actorindie pop artist pearl herbert to perform at the. While gabrielle might prefer a life with less publicity, she is no lesser a writer. Quarterly journal of the music library association it is a good read with a nice way of getting the facts across. As an adult, lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with girls night out in 1988 and has since written several more novels and plays, including foetal attraction, mad cows and dead sexy. Puberty blues, which opens today at the cinema studio, is based on a novel of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which purported to tell. This is the website that will give you ease of searching book to read. Heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. Australias top 100 favourite homegrown reads in 20, get reading began an extensive, nationwide search for the favourite australian books of all time.
But when they finally muscle their way in, they are disillusioned. It also marked the starting point of kathy lettes writing career, which sees her now as an author at the forefront of her field. If you want to start a series pubertyblues page, just click the edit button above. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. Puberty blues pearl herbert was also there and looked simply stunning in a black lace frock and snakeskin slides puberty blues pearl herbert was also there and looked simple stunning in a black. Puberty blues is a 1981 australian comingofage film directed by bruce beresford. Puberty blues australian screen classics the education. My copy is a 2002 reprint from england with new forewards by two of the few australian lady celebs, kylie minogue and germaine greer.
This new edition of puberty blues is published jointly by text publishing and random house australia, in time for the new channel 10 tv series screening from august 15 2012. An eightpart series of puberty blues will screen on the network this year as it attempts to win back audiences with nostalgia. Theres no doubt puberty blues is one of our great sunandsand. In the late 1970s, debbie and sue are inseparable teenage girls. Puberty blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 yearold best friends, raised in. Pearl herbert is an actress, known for puberty blues 2012, the crossing 2017 and home and away 1988. It was adapted into film in 1981 by bruce beresford and was made into a tv series in 2012 the novel and film focus on the two main characters, teenagers debbie vickers and sue knight, as they try and get in with the cool crowd, the green hills gang. Kathy lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues. Puberty blues is a 1979 novel by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Goodreads members who liked puberty blues also liked. After register, you can access this book for free and get access thousands of books in the other categories. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues.
Gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughoutloud best sellers. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was sydney in the 70s see more at. Puberty blues tv series wikimili, the best wikipedia. These qualities make 100 books every blues fan should own a valued purchase for serious blues lovers and librarians alike. Puberty blues nude scenes 6 images and 5 videos including appearances from charlotte best susie porter. Puberty blues by carey, gabrielle and kathy lette and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey. Puberty blues is the biography which launched kathy lettes writing career and made her famous. Puberty blues is a tv show on australian national television from network 10 with an average rating of 3. Puberty blues 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette.
The film is based on the 1979 novel puberty blues, by gabrielle carey and kathy lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel about two yearold girls from the lower middle class sutherland shire in sydney. Puberty blues is surely one those early 80s films with its own theme song that makes you just want to throw things at the tv screen, cringing at almost everything the film portrays. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming. Puberty blues sharon witt is a melbourne author of. Its 1977 and joinedatthehip teenagers debbie and sue are having the time of their lives, hanging out on cronulla beach and fantasising about getting into the greenhills gang, the bronzed surfers and their chicks who rule the beach. April rose pengilly wears monochrome dress at australian. Coming of age in the 1970s, puberty blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who dont make it, in a world where only the gang and the surf count. The history, art, science, and industry of the queen of gems by kunz, george frederick, stevenson, charles hugh and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A television series based on the novel began airing in 2012. She is one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, paving the way for caitlin moran and lena dunham. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming of age process. Australias top 100 favourite homegrown reads better reading. Puberty blues star pearl herbert is a familiar face on the small screen but on sunday the summer hill neighbourhood feast will provide a stage for her music.
First published in 1979 in australia by two 18yearolds, it was a scandal, since it was about sex and drugs and if you count pat boone rock n roll. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain for the first time. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 8 on vimeo. Puberty blues is an iconic australian movie and book and tv show that forever immortalised the youth culture of the late 70searly 80s, including the glorious slang. This is puberty blues series 2 episode 1 by glendyn ivin on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by nightin the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on cronulla beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while someone. With nell schofield, jad capelja, jeffrey rhoe, tony hughes. Sue obtains the perfect boyfriend, ferris visits graham in hospital in an attempt to make things right, vicki gets married, bruce and danny attempt their first armed robbery, debbie and gary fall in love all. Puberty blues 1 hours and 27 minutes movie 1981 meet sue, a teenage australian girl in the late 70s, whose life mainly consists of doing what everyone else does watch the surfing boys and have sex with the same surfing boys. One recent article stated that new melbourne research claims that sex education should be fast tracked to children as young as five. Puberty blues is a story about a nation growing up. With brenna harding, ashleigh cummings, sean keenan, charlotte best.
The book of the pearl by kunz abebooks shop for books. Based on the iconic novel puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, the series will move beyond the original pages and explore the mis adventures of these young girls, their families and. It also marked the starting point of kathy lettes writing career, which sees her now as an author at the forefront of her. Find books like puberty blues from the worlds largest community of readers.