AustLit

'You could buy methedrine ampoules over the counter in Indian chemists, and soon he was injecting her. The needle changed everything. Pure speed, she was riding high, too high, and soon she was completely out of control. She couldn’t get enough, once she doped up via the needle. The methedrine ‘flash’ high, was what it was all about—that timeless, endless, space-out, that floating, mental stillness, eternity in the now. Nothing else came close!
'La Ragazza is a confessional work of fiction—Raffaella Torresan’s central character, La Ragazza (The Girl) can’t settle in to suburban school life so she leaves home at age fifteen and hits the mean streets of the city. She finds it. Sex, drugs, the whole damn thing. The Girl wants to see The World and The Big Bad World loves nothing more than to lead innocence astray. By the time. much much later, when The Girl returns to her origins she has seen the wonderful and terrible sights of the Far Shores, found love and loss, and the wonderful/terrible world of drugs. She has learned to sacrifice everything and everyone—mainly herself—for The Hit. Will the needle eat into her soul? Can she see that The Drug will take everything from you... even life itself?

'Raffaella Torresan has written a compelling story that bleeds truth through the fiction.

'What is real? Only you can decide...' (Publication summary)