Hating Alison Ashley

The grown-up Erica Yurken, commonly known as `Yuk' or `Erk', looks back to 1975, to the time when she was fourteen and living in Barringa East with her family. There's Mum, a bingo addict, Mum's boyfriend Lennie, whom Yuk loathes, her older sister Valjoy who is boy mad, her younger sister Jedda who is horse-mad and her big brother Harley who's unemployed, and then there's Alison Ashley, the new girl who seems perfect. …