Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta
Genre: Family, Mystery, Romance
Published: 2006
Hardback: 419 pages
Rating: 5

Inspiration: I was intrigued with the review from Persnickety Snark's YA podcast.

Description from book:
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

My thoughts:
In-a-word: solace
I loved how the Jellicoe Road story unfolds. The first half of the book is clouded in mystery with dream sequences, stories within the story and a main character who is at odds. Then as reality sets in for the main character, we get to finally understand what is what and who is who. A bit of romance is thrown into the mix that make the characters even more likable.

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Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Description from author's site:
"What do you want from me?" he asks.

What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.

More.

Taylor Markham is not a popular choice. She is erratic, has no people skills and never turns up to meetings. Not to mention the incident when she ran off in search of her mother and only got halfway there. But she's lived at Jellicoe School most of her life and as leader of the boarders that's her greatest asset. Especially now the cadets, led by the infamous Jonah Griggs, have arrived. The territory wars between the boarders, townies and cadets are about to recommence.

But Taylor has other things on her mind: a prayer tree, the hermit who whispered in her ear, and a vaguely familiar drawing in the local police station. Taylor wants to understand the mystery of her own past. But Hannah, the woman who found her, has suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing but an unfinished manuscript about five kids whose lives entwined twenty years ago on the Jellicoe Road.

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