![]() ![]() We are never quite sure how much of what we see is real, but no matter what we see, we know that all of it – the entire world of the book – originates from her. Isola, the protagonist, is given her due here as a character of such psychological complexity that the labyrinth of her mind is what frames the book itself. Perhaps the most thoroughly derided archetype in modern literature, the teenage girl is often dismissed as shallow, superficial, appearance-based and feminine in all the wrong ways. A bubblegum gothic coming-of-age narrative that centres itself firmly in the mindspace of a teenage girl, it is uncompromising in both its flights of fancy and its descent into darkness. ![]() Fairytales for Wilde Girls, by contemporary Australian author Allyse Near, manages the impressive feat of sacrificing neither gritty reality nor whimsical fairytale in the world it weaves and the characters that inhabit it. ![]()
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