Plastic Budgie Category_FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS readers can spot Taylor

readers can spot Taylor

The fate of the Kingdom depends on her making the right choice

surrounded by her family

refusing to hear any of her grim predictions

Elys’ illustrations always include lots of hidden details and jokes for readers to discover (young and old

Plastic Budgie Category_FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS readers can spot TaylorOlivia 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