"Like all tomato days we had spaghetti that night. Made by our own hands. A tradition that we'll never let go. A tradition that I probably will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can't escape it." The Australian experi...

Looking for Alibrandi is a novel which mostly deals with Josephine going through a journey of self discovery. Josie discovers who she is through both positive and negative circumstances; however, they all combine to help her find her true identity. Through a number of characters, Marchetta demonstra...

"Nothing changes: its all the same thing." Our perception of how we see and understand things constantly alters and reforms. Time and experience allow us to develop and alter these perceptions: of people, events, ideas, and even of ourselves. This process we go through is called "change". Most o...

osephine Alibrandi, a Catholic girl, narrates the novel in her final year of High school. She attends St Martha's, a wealthy catholic school in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Her academic scholarship ensures her place at the school as she is not as well off as the population of largely wealthy Anglo-Celt...