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Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. Shes a prankster and a risk-taker, and shes not afraid of anythingexcept losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night sheexperiences something she cant explain.

The funny girl isnt laughing anymore. Shes haunted by voices and visionsbut nobody believes a girl who cries wolf.

As shes drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. Shecan no longer tell whats real or imaginedallshe knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price.

Everything about her is changingher body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. Grace is losing herself, and her friends dont understand. Is she moving closer to the truth? Or is she heading for madness?

I trace the word with my finger. It shimmers. A sharp impact near my ribs knocks me sideways and the pipe seems to buckle and twist. My legs lose grip. Close by, someone is sobbing as if their heart could break.

Vikki Wakefields first YA novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for YA Fiction, as did her second novel, Friday Brown, in 2014. Friday Brown was also an Honour Book at the Childrens Book Council of Australia, in 2013, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Prime Ministers Awards. Vikkis third novel, InbetweenDays, was Highly Commended in the 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award, was a 2016 CBCA Honour Book and was shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Ministers Awards. Vikki lives in the Adelaide foothills with her family.

Fans of intelligent, unflinching, spine-crawling thrillerswill love Ballad for a Mad Girl. Books Publishing

Vikki Wakefield is a formidable authorIntriguing and captivating. Absolutely phenomenal. Diva Book Nerd

Wakefield tightropes confidently between fact and fantasy, the real and the surreal in this gripping tale of a daredevil teenager. Adelaide Advertiser, Favourite Books of the Year

Everything you already love about Vikki Wakefieldplus a spine-tingling supernatural mystery. Ballad for a Mad Girl is brilliantly creepy and thrilling. Fiona Wood

Wakefields bone-chilling supernatural thriller...blurs the line between perception and reality, often folding in shrewd discussions of mental illness along the way. With whirlwind pacing, dynamic characterizations, and out-of-this-world spook appeal, Wakefields writing is a possessive force of its own. Readers, ready your nightlights. Booklist

The touch of magical realismor is it psychic ability that Grace inherited from her mother?is key to making the plot workGive this to readers who enjoy a bit of supernatural ambiguity in their crime dramas. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books

Theres a dark side to being the funny one in the group. This is a piercing, creepy tale about a wild girl who could lose herself to a ghost. Vikki Wakefields writing never fails to give me chills. Emily Gale

Vikki Wakefield writes stories that will break your heart. Readings

Ballad for a Mad Girl is brilliant, edgy and unsettling. Grace is a tough and sympathetic anti-heroine. I felt her grief and, even when I cursed her curiosity, was compelled to follow her to the storys satisfying, cinematic end. Simmone Howell

Vikki Wakefield is one of Australias best YA writers. I couldnt put down Ballad for a Mad Girl. Cath Crowley

Vikki Wakefield is one of the most creative and daring authors writing for young adults today. Ballad for a Mad Girl is an Aussie YA Gothic tale that smartly uses the supernatural to explore the depths of grief and growing up, and the pain to be found in both. This is a caring and keening novel, creepy but tender and wholly marvellous. Danielle Binks

Ballad for a Mad Girl is an intense, unsettling readEvery page is charged with emotion. Loony Literate

Ballad for a Mad Girl is about the living, the dead, the long journey of grief, and what happens when the lines between them blur. A spooky, gripping rollercoaster ride! Nadia L King

In Ballad for a Mad Girl, Vikki Wakefield does it again, this time raising the bar with a riveting, beautifully told ghost story that draws you in until the very last page. Kids Book Review

Talented author Vikki Wakefield produced another gripping novel for YA readersA clever mystery and insightful working out of newly adult relationships among characters as real and nuanced as ourselves. Adelaide Advertiser

A beautifully creepy book. Booktopia

With complex and genuine characters, a captivating narrative and the authenticity of a small-town setting, Ballad for a Mad Girl is the epitome of great Aussie YA. Written Word Worlds

Beautifully written, chilling and atmospheric, Ballad for a Mad Girl is a story with heart, horror, and hope. Bookish Manicurist

Ballad for a Mad Girl is a real page turner...Beautifully written. The gothic, literary tone adds to the creepy atmosphere. Reading Time

Ballad for a Mad Girl has all the features to appeal to its intended audience, with its tight plot, its claustrophobic country town atmosphere and a group of longtime friends growing up and sometimes growing apart. Many are sure to enjoy the tension and edginess of Vikki Wakefields novel. Magpies

A tightly drawn story of compulsion...I could picture the landscapes so carefully created by Wakefield. The striking cover will impel young adults to choose to read it and they will be stunned by the extraordinary thriller within. ReadPlus

This is another great young adult novel by Vikki Wakefield that looks at the real world of a teenager, and what might be happening on the other side. Big Book Club

Evocative descriptions will make readers feel Graces fear, frustration, and confusion, with sights, sounds, and scents that are as palpable as word on a page can be. Mesmerising, haunting, and hopeful. Kirkus Reviews

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