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A new novel by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Scribe is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of West Girls, an eviscerating new novel by Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of The Newcomer, Beautiful Revolutionary, and The Love of a Bad Man.

Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia’s richest state. It’s also a devastating catalogue of the myriad, inventive ways in which women love and hurt one another.

‘It took two years of closed borders to make Western Australia, and my family situation, seem worth writing about. West Girls is more personal than my earlier books, but it also elaborates on themes I've been circling for a long time — power, desire, internalised misogyny, who gets to move up in the world and who gets hurt along the way,’ says Laura of the writing process and the book.

Acquiring publisher Marika Webb-Pullman comments about the book that, ‘Laura is one of our most interesting and talented writers, and I'm thrilled to be working with her again. West Girls continues her exploration of complex, flawed women living within the patriarchy, and of female friendship in all its glory and its toxicity. As with her previous books, though, she approaches these topics from unexpected angles, and her work remains dazzlingly unpredictable.’

West Girls will be published on 1 August 2023.

West Girls

‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.’

Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren’t, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic’ beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu’ and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she’s sacrificed — and who she’s become — in her mission to conquer the world.

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