It also has this – sometimes weird – typical Australian (maybe?) humour, but there are also scenes that make you swallow hard and feel incredibly sad for the characters. Luckily My Big Birkett was available here and I'm very happy about that. So, this review also includes a call to publishers and booksellers: Please make more of those books available in Europe and the US! Yet every time my Australian GR friends add a new Aussie title that sounds promising, I’m let down by every single one of the online bookstores I usually frequent and can't help to feel sad that another great reading experience will probably never make its way across the ocean to Europe. Both Melina Marchetta and Jaclyn Moriarty are among my favourite authors and their books can't be compared to most of the other YA books I've read in the last years (which doesn't mean I didn't love those, of course). After having finished this book, I can’t help but wonder: What is it that makes Australian YA so special – hilariously funny and sad at the same time – but just so wonderful and capturing? It's not that I've read heaps of Australian books, but the tendency can't be denied.
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