Judging Meghan
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A story that brings Australia's depression era vividly to life.
“What’s the country coming to? Losing our homes, our jobs, that’s one thing, but to lose our respect for each other, to stoop to this level to survive – it’s… it’s primitive!”
Meghan Manley is the middle child of five, and her family are quite content living on their farm in 1931 Australia. But when they are forced to leave and join hundreds of others on the road, looking for work, they are faced with both the best and worst of humanity.
At sixteen Meghan is not sure how to take this new life of desparation and uncertainty. Her friendships, beliefs and sense of self are tested, but nothing more so than her own character, pivoted on one of the hardest things of all – the need to forgive.
“Judging Meghan is a story that brings Australia’s depression era vividly to life.”
Paula VinceAbout the Author
Trudy Adams
Youth Worker
Born in 1987, Trudy has always been passionate about the power of words and working with young people. She began what would become her first novel, Desolate Beauty, at 17. It was published in 2009 and won third prize in the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, Judging Meghan, followed in 2010, and Broken Melody was released in 2013. Her fourth novel, The Sunshine List, won second prize in the Australian Young Christian Writers Award (2015) and was published in 2017. Having finished her youth work postgraduate degree in 2010 and worked with disadvantaged young people for more than nine years, Trudy is now a caseworker who endeavours to provide children of all ages with safety and security. She currently lives in the Lack Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Reviewer of Judging Meghan “didn’t really want it to come to an end”
A recent review by Rob Allwright on the blog, One Man in the Middle, offered praise for YA novel Judging Meghan by Trudy Adams.
