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'"Does anyone read your letters or can I write anything I want?"
That question, from 15-year-old Tracey to her pen pal Mandy in John Marsden's
1991 novel
Letters from the Inside, so captured my imagination when I was
kid, I posed the same question to my own pen pal.
Her response was similar to Mandy's.
"What do you mean, does anybody read my letters?"
Marsden nailed the language of teenagers in the novel, the curiosity, the angst
and, as I would later write about in my own book, what it's like when you're a
young person who cares about another young person who is incarcerated.
Letters from the Inside resonated with me, spoke to me, had impact and as a
consequence, Marsden's other books were ones I sought out as a young adult.
Marsden, the acclaimed multi-award-winning Australian author who sold millions
of books, and school principal who founded two schools, has died. He was 74.'
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
