Posted: 6 June 2011 at 2:48 pm
I read this novel in one gulp, loving every moment of the narrator?s voice and the strangeness of her impoverished life. When Mim loses a package of happy pills that her drug-dealer mother has asked her to pick up, it begins a train of events that gives her the shove from fate she?s been waiting for all her life. Mim has lived her young life by a set of rules, which she believes will help her escape her mother?s fate. But then a new friend?s support gives her the bravery to stick to her guns, and the phone-s-x worker next door, who is studying to be a nurse, teaches her not to judge by outward appearances. Mim?s neighbourhood is peopled with bizarre characters who bring this teen novel to life with warmth and humour. The rules Mim lives by turn out to be useful only as each one is broken. Though Mim makes mistakes, and plenty of them, this novel contains none. All I Ever Wanted is a brilliant coming-of-age novel for teens which, like Honey Brown?s The Good Daughter, might be enjoyed by adults too.
Kate Sunners is a bookseller at Riverbend Books. This review first appeared in the May issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine.
Tags: All I Ever Wanted, Text, Vikki Wakefield
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