When travellers Ben and Emma come to blows on the idyllic Thai island of Koh Samet, it's not long before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious but enigmatic beach masseuse, and is forced to come to terms with the darker side of tourism in Thailand. As Ben parties on the beaches with travellers from aroun
One Way or Another: The Story of a Girl Who Loved Rock Stars
โ Scribed by McWatters, Nikki
- Book ID
- 108426434
- Publisher
- Black Inc.
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 540 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781921870583
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
'A great Australian rock 'n' roll read' โ Steve Kilbey
In 1981, fifteen-year-old Nikki McWatters is living in a Gold Coast suburb, dragging herself through humdrum schooldays and dreaming of losing her virginity to a rock star. With three friends she starts the Vulture Club for aspiring groupies โ and so begins a festival of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
As Nikki gets older, her conquests get bigger and the stakes get higher. From Australian Crawl to INXS, Pseudo Echo to Duran Duran, she is living her teenage dream โ but is the groupie life all it's cracked up to be?
One Way or Another is an irresistible romp through a world of pub rock, big hair, wild nights and mornings after. With irrepressible humour and a bulging little black book, Nikki McWatters recalls an age when everything seemed possible โ even if everything wasn't such a good idea.
'A vivid, heartfelt trip into the human side of rock 'n' roll ... Painfully honest and...
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