One True Thing by Nicole Hayes is not a Western Australian Children’s book but it is on the Western Australian Young Readers Book Awards list.

This book is ‘Chic Lit’ for Young Adults, and they will love it.  Frankie’s mum is running for Premier of Victoria, and as usual there is plenty of media attention and muck racking.  This book is about how Frankie deals with living in such a weird environment.

This book is quite long and the story is well constructed.  Slowly, slowly Nicole Hayes  builds up a tension and at the end of Part 1 the story reaches a climax where each person Frankie approaches for help lets her down. Part 2 is the slow resolution of the problems and a lot of other problems added to the mix, and Part 3 finishes it all up.

It was well written.