Olivia De Zilva on ‘Plastic Budgie’
Tuesday, 10 June 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Tarndanya/Adelaide-based writer Olivia De Zilva’s debut, Plastic Budgie (Pink Shorts Press, August), is described as a ‘sharply funny, sad and sentimental reflection on the people, places and cultural forces that shape us as we grow up’. In this autofiction novel, ‘anecdotes from childhood and adolescence are woven together into an...