Bad Behaviour (Rebecca Starford) Scroll back a few posts and you will come across my review of Alice Pung's recent novel Laurinda , an unsettling story of the nastiness that teenage girls can inflict upon each other in an "exclusive" girls school setting. When the opportunity arose to delve into another account of the sinister world of privileged teenage girls and their power plays, I eagerly nabbed the chance. And so enter Bad Behaviour, author Rebecca Starford's personal memoir of her year in an exclusive outdoor education school in Victoria, Australia, Just like the good old "train wreck" from which you can't look away, the behaviour of these girls towards each other, and particularly towards the weak, is both compelling and disturbing. Read any review of Bad Behaviour and Lord of the Flies is bound to be mentioned at least once. To be fair, it's hard not to think of William Golding's classic when reading Starford's memoir. ...
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