Jenny Valentish

Nina Dall is one half of Sydney pop-punk band The Dolls. Have they got what it takes to stay on top or are they just a one hit wonder? Told through the eyes of a young singer who's seen it all, this is celebrated rock journalist Jenny Valentish's debut novel - a wild ride into Australia's music scene.

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Sam Kiszonka

The wine on the tables was free. When we watched the recording a few days later we could clearly see Rose in the background at one point, sitting on the floor with her glass, but we couldn’t for the life of us remember why she was there. John Villiers laughed a lot, but he stopped introducing us to people halfway through the evening. I’m not blaming John Villiers, but perhaps if he’d given us some of the cocaine I now don’t doubt for a minute that he was packing, we wouldn’t have got quite as drunk as we did.


I loved this book. 
It is like The Runaways meets The Veronicas, 'a wild ride into Australia's music scene'.
This book is told through the eyes of Nina Dall, one half of Sydney's pop-punk band, The Dolls.
Nina's cousin Rose Dall makes up the other half. 
I think they would look similar to this lol.
  
 
The book follows their rise to fame, which is full of sex, drugs, teenage angst and of course Rock’n’Roll. 
It deals with some serious topics such as, child abuse, parental neglect and drug exploitation. 
Despite those tough issues, the book is a fun, easy read that I just couldn't put down.

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