Erin Gough: The flywheel (2015, Hardie Grant Egmont)
309 pages
English language
Published June 22, 2015 by Hardie Grant Egmont.
Seventeen-year-old Delilah's crazy life is about to get crazier. Ever since her father took off overseas she's been struggling to run the family's cafe without him. But after a misjudged crush of one of the cool girls, Del has become the school punchline. With all that's on her plate she barely has time for her favourite distraction - spying on the beautiful Rosa, who dances flamenco at the tapas bar across the road. All this leaves Del with some seriously curly questions. Is it okay to break the law to help a friend? How can a girl tell another girl she likes her without it ending in humiliation and heartbreak? And the big one, is it ever truly possible to dance in public without falling over?
Couldn’t really empathise with Del. Hated Charlie. Hated the whole plot around Charlie from start to finish, actually. The writing was decent and god, I wanted to like this book so badly but I just couldn’t deal with the characters.
