Dreaming of Amelia

Description

Amelia and Riley are bad kids from the bad crowd at bad Brookfield High, and they've just transferred to Ashbury. Brilliant, mysterious and probably evil, they have the rich kids at Ashbury spellbound. Tantalisingly aloof, they are somehow managing to have an extraordinary impact on all the HSC Ashbury students and staff. Told through memoirs written as part of the gothic fiction elective in the HSC English exam, Falling for Amelia is a story about ghosts, secrets, madness, passion, locked doors, femme fatales - and that terrifying moment in the final year of high school when you realise that the future's come to get you.

Jaclyn Moriarty grew up in Sydney's north-west and studied Law and English on three continents - at Sydney University in Australia, Yale in the US and Cambridge in England. She spent four years working as a media and entertainment lawyer and now writes full time so that she can sleep in each day. She lives in Sydney.