Plastic Budgie Category_BODY Chicken with Lemon

Chicken with Lemon

hoping to escape their complicated home lives for the summer break

were the real savages

I love all the twists and turns and the guessing along the way

and revelations about an enemy more daunting than she imagined forces her to share her power with a dangerous man

Plastic Budgie Category_BODY Chicken with LemonOlivia De Zilva's Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia, curses and glimpses of birds. There was no use googling am I cursed because the search engine algorithm would always say yes. Olivia was named after a lycra clad singer her parents saw on Rage. As a child, she lost the ability to speak and spent a year barking like a dog. Her Gong Gong bought her a yellow bird in a shoebox from