Bibliograph

Beyond Alice, Tanya Heaslip

Type

Label

Beyond Alice, Tanya Heaslip

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beyond Alice

Responsibility statement

Tanya Heaslip

Summary

Twelve-year-old Tanya Heaslip leaves her isolated home in outback Australia and is sent sixteen hundred kilometres south to a girls' boarding school for an education the bush can't provide. The freedom of her young life gives way to an unfriendly world of stone and concrete, high walls, small skies, uniforms, harsh words and endless rules that make no sense. In common with many children of the outback, Tanya struggles to adjust to boarding school. Yet, over time, her fellow boarders become her new family and Tanya survives both by writing, and by telling her stories of family, race meetings, gymkhanas, campdrafts and stock camps to her loyal friends

Target audience

adult

Creator