I liked this book in spite of myself in high school, even though my English teacher did everything in their power to make me hate it, what with their dreaded essays and overanalysing almost every single aspect of it. My takeaway from the movie was that the girl who played Beatie Bow was someone I knew from Home and Away (it’s an Australian thing). You may even even remember watching the 1986 movie in your classroom on one of those combined TV and VHS contraptions your teacher would have rolled it into your room on a metal trolley.
You probably spent so much time second guessing what the author meant, trawling through the text for themes and writing essay after essay about characters, plot and location that even the sight of this book may make your heart sink. If you’re an Australian of a certain age it’s practically a given that this book was one of your early high school English class assigned readings.
‘It’s Beatie Bow,’ shrieked Mudda in a voice of horror, ‘risen from the dead!’
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