![]() ![]() This is Emily Gale and Nova Weetman’s first collaboration together, having both written many children’s books individually. ![]() It’s great seeing how both girls – from two very different periods in time – can find so much in common with each other. Cat, on the other hand, has lots of pressure from her recent sport scholarship. It’s a fresh and engaging exploration of the challenges and pressures for young women growing up in the past and today.įanny, based off of the famous real life Australian swimmer Fanny Durack, isn’t expected to achieve much but has dreams of making it to the Olympics. ![]() Narrated in alternating chapters by Cat and Fanny, Elsewhere Girls is a moving and funny story of two girls with a deep connection. But one day, time slips, and they swap places.Īs each girl lives the other’s life, with all the challenges and confusion it presents, she comes to appreciate and understand herself and the role of swimming in her own life. They both live in the same Sydney suburb, but in different worlds, or at least different times: Cat in current-day Sydney, and Fanny in 1908. Fanny loves to swim and she lives for racing, but family chores and low expectations for girls make it very hard for her to fit in even the occasional training session.Ĭat and Fanny have never met. Cat has recently started at a new school on a sports scholarship, and she’s feeling the pressure of early morning training sessions and the need for total commitment. ![]()
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