Gough has created a clever, engaging feminist romp for readers aged 12 and up that is utterly unputdownable. This smart, sassy novel skewers a range of issues including sexism, elitism and lack of diversity with a light touch, and features a diverse cast of secondary characters. But how long can they keep up the hoax before they get discovered? Meanwhile, without even noticing, these two very different girls are also falling in love. Amelia Westlake soon takes on other causes, including staff favouritism and underuse of resources. Together they produce a cartoon caricaturing the sports coach’s sleazy behaviour and submit it to the school paper under a pseudonym, Amelia Westlake, hoping it will get him sacked or at least reprimanded. When these two meet at detention, sparks fly. Harriet is one of the elites top of the class, school prefect and star tennis player, determined to win the Tawney Cup, like her mother and grandmother before her. Will, short for Wilhemina, is politically and socially active, a talented artist who moved to elite Rosemead Grammar after her parents split. This is a brilliant social satire with a feminist vibe and two strong main characters whose voices alternate telling the story. The Flywheel was published in the US as Get it Together, Delilah! and in Germany, and was shortlisted for the CBCA’s Book of the Year for Older Readers and the Centre for Youth Literature’s Gold Inky.Įrin’s award-winning short stories have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Best Australian Stories, The Age, Overland, Southerly and Going Down Swinging. Erin is a past recipient of the Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction and an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship.Her Ampersand Prize-winning debut The Flywheel, Erin Gough’s second novel has been eagerly anticipated. It has been published in the United States as Amelia Westlake Was Never Here.Įrin's first novel for young adults, The Flywheel, won the Ampersand Prize. Her second YA novel is Amelia Westlake, for which she was won the 2018 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. The Flywheel was her debut YA novel and the winner of the Hardie Grant Egmont Ampersand Prize. It won the 2019 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature and the 2018 Readings Young Adult Book Prize, was a finalist in the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards, was shortlisted in the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction and the 2019 Indie Book Awards. Erin Gough is an author based in Sydney, Australia.
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