Melina Marchetta, again, never fails to amaze me with this spectacular book. It never occurred to me until now how I'm super impressed with her awesome choices of her book titles. (Saving Francesca. Finnikin of the Rock. On the Jellicoe Road.) They're perfect. Perfect titles on their own. Just by book's title and you'll feel in your gut instinct that something extraordinary is about to happen by just reading a certain Marchetta piece. Anyways, this book has gotten me to explore the wonders of the achingly sweet past that connects to how a certain present evokes how a person comes to know life, as unfair as it is, has also something good that's left in it for her. Don't be too easily swabbed out by the first few pages, because I tell you, I too was a bit "URGH!-I-couldn't-understand-a-thing!". Just continue to read on. You'll be surprised when you're finally enlightened. =) 
 PS: There's one of the subplots here that reminds me of the "Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern". Just the part of uncovering the past and all. But they're still completely different from each other. Both actually entertained me and somehow evoked some same emotions out of me.