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All I Ever Wanted
Published 27 June 2011
ISBN 9781921758300
Format Paperback
Extent 202pp
AU Price $19.95
NZ Price $26.00

All I Ever Wanted

Winner of the Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2012

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27 June 2011
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27 June 2011
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As a teenager, I always had one leg dangling over the wrong side of the tracks. When I was seventeen I went to house-sit for a friend who was an unmarried teenage mother. It was a half-house in a lost street in a forgotten suburb - just like the book. It wasn't hard to dredge up memories of that month - I lived in a perpetual state of fear and desperation. I dared myself to stay there. During the day the street was deserted; at night it was alive and menacing and I was terrified. Law seemed to exist outside of that street, but by the end of the month I was braver, wiser and I'd changed my mind about some of the residents. The people who lived there didn't have money or material things - but what they did have was pride, a sense of community and bucketloads of humanity.

Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go — anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won't get off the couch, and two brothers in prison. She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them.
Now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother.
Does this make her a drug runner?
Why is a monster dog called Gargoyle hidden in the back shed?
And Jordan, the boy she sent Valentines to for years, why is he now suddenly a creep?
How come there's a huge gap between her and her best friend, Tahnee?
And who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night?
Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. She has problems, and she's determined to solve them herself. But in the end, she works out who her people are, and the same things look entirely different.
Published 27 June 2011
ISBN 9781921758300
Format Paperback
Extent 202pp
AU Price $19.95
NZ Price $26.00

About the author

Vikki Wakefield

Vikki Wakefield writes fiction for adults and young adults. Her novels have been shortlisted for numerous awards. After You Were Gone, a psychological thriller, was her first novel for adults and was published in 2022 to much acclaim. To the River is her second psychological thriller for adults. Vikki lives in Adelaide, South Australia.
portrait photo of Vikki Wakefield

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Praise for All I Ever Wanted

Vikki Wakefield is blessed with truly remarkable gifts. She shares her insights into our capacity to love, to hate, not in a preachy way but with a humour reminiscent of Nick Hornby's. She's a fearless writer, ripping deep into the human heart and letting it bleed compassion and indifference in equal measure and without judgment

Paul Griffin, author of Ten Mile River