Willow Tree and Olive

by Irini Savvides

Overview

Enough waterwave taffeta for a lifetime of weddings, always in apricot, matching shoes and a sugared almond under your pillow so you can dream of the man you love. Olive laughs wildly and counts the expensive plates as they hit the wall. But she can't hide her desperate struggle to piece together a shattered sense of trust. Sometimes Olive is embarrassed by her culture, and even hates being Greek. But, as her friend Kerry tells her, the rest of the time she harps on as if the Greeks invented everything. Olive's parents decide that a change of scene will help her through her inability to handle school, family and growing up in general. So they send her on a holiday to Greece. And it's the Greek determination to survive, along with their love of poetry and myth, that finally encourage Olive to step out of a past she can no longer face, and take on the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780734412157
Publisher:	Hachette Australia
Publication date:	08/01/2011
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	326 KB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Irini Savvides lives and works in the Blue Mountains. A school teacher, she has Master's degrees in writing and eduction and loves poetry, mists across the mountains and shoes.