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Winner of the Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2012.
Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. In the end, the same things look entirely different.
Rule number one: I will not turn out like my mother.
Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go. Anywhere but home-in a dead suburb and with a mother who won't get off the couch. Her two older brothers are in prison, so now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother. Does this make her a drug runner? She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them. And she can't seem to find answers to all the new questions:
Why is the monster dog Gargoyle hidden in the back shed?
Why is the boy she sent Valentines to for years now suddenly a creep?
And who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night?
Vikki Wakefield's first young adult novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, as did her second novel, Friday Brown, in 2014. Friday Brown was also an Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia, 2013. Among other awards, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Prime Minister's Awards, 2013. Her new novel, Inbetween Days, will be published in October 2015. Vikki lives in the Adelaide foothills with her family.
'One of the most memorable YA books I've ever read. Original, real, startling and beautiful.' Cath Crowley, author of Graffiti Moon
'One of the best debut novels I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Vikki Wakefield has gifted the Australian Publishing world, and readers of Young Adult Fiction, a superior tale, full to brimming with formidable characters and an exquisite protagonist.' The Book Gryffin
'While it's both a thriller and a gritty romance, for me All I Ever Wanted is first and foremost a sparkling journey into hope. As the story drives toward its surprising conclusion, we're left as stunned as Mim as she discovers "that there are so many ways to tell a person you love them." I loved this book.' Paul Griffin
'[An] absorbing young adult novel...Despite the grim setting, the characters are richly and lovingly drawn with smart-mouthed, determined Mim a particular delight. At the core of the book is the idea that things (and people) are not what they seem. It's nothing new as a concept, but it's executed with winningly original style, wit and heart. Think Underbelly meets Hating Alison Ashley.' Big Issue
'Vikki Wakefield's first novel walks the tightrope between fate and human agency. Despair is leavened by shards of hope; this is not Young Adult literature that peddles misery or wallows in a nihilistic fug. Mim is one of those resilient protagonists who still wields a degree of control over her life....Like her protagonist, Wakefield plays with the reader's prejudices. Little by little, the restrictive labels forced on various characters are seen to be products of convenience or carelessness, rather than truth...All I Ever Wanted is a thoughtful and impressive debut, and Wakefield a talent to watch.' Australian Book Review
'A beautifully-written account of one young girl trying to claw her way out of the circumstances into which she was born...It's a story about daring to dream and the transformative power of hope.' Sunday Tasmanian
- Sales Rank: #1366694 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-06-27
- Released on: 2011-06-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
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A novel of dualities
By Alpha Reader
Anywhere but here. That's what Mim thinks - that she'd rather be anywhere but these suburbs that are haunted by a missing girl. Anywhere but down the road from the Tarrant house, where a dog called Gargoyle patrols the perimeter. Anywhere but in this family, with a mother addicted to home shopping and two brothers stuck in prison. Where childcare workers take her brothers' bastard kids away the second Mim's mum starts loving them.
So Mim has made rules to live by, rules to get out of this dump. No tattoos. Virginity intact. No drugs. No drugs. No drugs.
But all it takes is her perfect-boy crush, Jordan Mullen, smiling at her to send everything spiralling out of control.
`All I Ever Wanted' is the debut Australian Young Adult novel from Vicki Wakefield.
`All I Ever Wanted' came out in June this year, and was heralded as a landmark YA Australian novel. I put off reading it, for God knows what reason ... and now that I have been inducted into the Vicki Wakefield fan-club, all I can think is that I took too long to get here.
This book is a lesson in duality. On the one hand, Wakefield's novel is dealing with raw and gritty circumstances, as told from the perspective of a sixteen-going-on-seventeen-year-old girl dreamer. Mim's family is reminiscent of the Cody clan in David Michôd's `Animal Kingdom' - and Mim's circumstances are close to that of Ree in `Winter's Bone', the Debra Granik film. Her family have a reputation - they are a criminal element with a parole record to prove it. But Mim doesn't want that for herself; she has a sagging bookshelf of Lonely Planet guides and a stuck globe reminding her that what she really wants is just over the horizon. But when her mother asks her to collect some `gear', Mim doesn't refuse. She pedals her bike into a world of trouble, bought on by beautiful boy Jordan Mullen.
What follows is Mim's fallout from a pick-up gone wrong; and how she tries to backtrack on a mistake that could end in a territorial clash.
With this subject matter, Wakefield could have gone over-the-top and written something bordering on `Underbelly' for the teen set. But instead she goes the other way - she writes Mim's criminal family with heart and depth, gives them personality and camaraderie. The residents of Mim's neighbourhood are a collection of odd souls and kind hearts - Lola, the phone-sex worker next door. Benny and his call of `Bloke!' in underpants with beer in hand. Mim's best friend, Tahnee, who has broken one of their golden rules. And Mrs Tkautz's, who calls Mim a `godless child'. These are rough people living in an undesirable neighbourhood - and even though we're reading about them through Mim's disdainful eyes, readers can see the hodge-podge family knocked together in this suburban wasteland.
Mim, on the other hand, hates everything about this place. The people, her family, the unwritten law that says you avoid walking past the Tarrant house. All of it is getting on Mim's nerves, and she's just about at breaking point.
Mim thinks Jordan Mullen is her ticket out. He's the beautiful boy from the posh neighbourhood - the boy all the public school girls drop their knickers for, and who is taking a gap year from his Uni course. Jordan is an idle fantasy that takes Mim out of this hellhole - dreaming about him has been a little slice of salvation for many years. But when Jordan double-crosses Mim, and his sister Kate crosses her path, Mim's view of her `people' and her daydreams go on a collision course.
Mim is a new favourite YA character. She's a skinny wanderer full of bad blood and big dreams. I loved her. She's a little bit blind to her own reality, and sometimes too harsh on those who love her. But her faults are her armour - and when she has come from so much muck, you can't help but admire her.
`All I Ever Wanted' is a wonderful novel from new Aussie YA author, Vicki Wakefield. It's a novel of dualities - our protagonist is a dreamer from a family of brutes. The setting is suburban wasteland, occupied by kind-hearted residents. The story is criminal, with a hidden agenda. And the boy crush is beauty, with a bad streak. Fantastic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Loved it
By Aussie Girl
This is not my usual reading style but I had heard of this new author and thought I would give it a chance, I am glad I did. This book was very well witten and told a beautiful and insightful story from a vantage point most of us don't get to experience.
I am looking forward to what Vikki will bring us next.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Just what I wanted
By Sally P. Booklover
Sometimes the exact right book comes along just when you need it.
ALL I EVER WANTED is real and raw ad beautifully written. And Mim! I adore Mim. She is such a fantastic character to root for. Sometimes my heart absolutely ached for her, but Mim wouldn't want anyone's pity.
Mim is desperate to get away from her family and the dark and edgy neighborhood where she lives. In order to keep focused on her goals for the future, she's made herself a list of rules. But then, from the start, she's forced into breaking her own rules - and possibly the law - getting herself deeper and deeper into trouble. Along the way Mim discovers no one is as good or as bad as she once thought - including herself.
A great tribute to the power of girl friendships and staying true to one's self while faced with a confusing world that's constantly changing.
Highly recommended!
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