Words can’t save a life – but they can capture it. Debra Adelaide farewells friend Gabrielle Carey
- Written by Jen Webb, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
Gabrielle Carey (centre left) and Debra Adelaide (centre right).Debra Adelaide’s new novel, When I Am Sixty-Four, is based on her lifelong friendship with the late Gabrielle Carey – a fellow author she first met in primary school, and bonded with over reading. Best known as the teenage author of Puberty Blues, Carey was also a lifelong...





