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Water Colours by Sarah Walker & Bad Girl by Margaret Clark

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October 2000, no. 225

Water Colours by Sarah Walker

Hodder Headline, $16.50 pb, 188 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Bad Girl by Margaret Clark

Random House, $16.40 pb, 192 pp

Water Colours by Sarah Walker & Bad Girl by Margaret Clark

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October 2000, no. 225

Sometimes ‘good’ girls just have to be ‘bad’. The ‘heroines’ of both these novels desperately want ‘to fit in’, but eventually discover that ‘fitting in’ involves accepting yourself for who you are, not changing into someone else. This seems an obvious lesson, but of course it’s one of the hardest to learn. Both books are jacketed in gorgeous fashion; the matte photographic images are enticing and every bit as seductive as the CD cases and video clips they emulate. But where one is brash and vibrant the other is muted and subtle – a description which could aptly be applied to the plots, too. For Walker and Clark deal with the age-old concern of self-identity in very different ways.

Robyn Sheahan-Bright reviews 'Water Colours' by Sarah Walker and 'Bad Girl' by Margaret Clark

Water Colours

by Sarah Walker

Hodder Headline, $16.50 pb, 188 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Bad Girl

by Margaret Clark

Random House, $16.40 pb, 192 pp

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