P Is for Pearl

Seventeen-year-old Gwen lives in an isolated town in the wilderness of Tasmania.

Gwen’s become very good at not thinking about the awful things that have happened to her family. Instead, she focuses on her best friend Loretta, and the beach, which Gwen runs along every day. She is also trying to accept and fit into her new stepfamily, but also avoid her stepbrother Tyrone, whose sole purpose in life seems to be to annoy Gwen. A lot.

When two new kids arrive in this very quiet town things change. Could Handsome Ben really be interested in Gwen, while his sister turns out to be a classic mean girl whom Gwen and Loretta have to learn how to side step at school?

As she deals with her deep sense of grief and loss, Gwen slowly comes to realise that people aren’t as they first appear and that like her, everyone has a story to tell.