![]() ![]() It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. It has since won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and the 2009 ABIA (Australian Booksellers Industry Awards) Book of the Year for. Marchettas fourth novel, the fantasy epic Finnikin of the Rock, was released in October 2008. ![]() The truth doesn't set you free, you know. Her second novel, Saving Francesca was released in 2003, followed by On the Jellicoe Road in 2006. |a Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed. Saving Francesca Quotes Showing 1-30 of 159. |a New York : |b Distributed by Random House Francesca uses slag and swear words a couple of times while speaking to her friends and arguing with her dad throughout the novel. This could be because she is shy or reserved. (A movie adaptation of the novel has been in the works for several years). I think that Francesca holds back her thoughts by not speaking to people about her ideas or feelings. ![]() |a Saving Francesca / |c Melina Marchetta. Saving Francesca fans, I have some good news: Melina Marchetta says shes just handed in the first draft of the screenplay. ![]()
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