Olivia is just turning thirteen, the oldest in a family of four children in Canberra, Australia. On her birthday her father issues her with a challenge. We follow Olivia through her first year as a teenager and how she responds to that challenge. We read about her adventures, disasters, struggles and successes at school, with her family and with her friends.
Aka Gil North. Geoffrey Horne was a British writer. He was born in Skipton Yorkshire and educates at Ermysted's Grammar School and Christ's College Cambridge. He married Betty Duthie in 1949. From 1938 to 1955 he was a civil servant in the African colonies.