Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get It Together, Delilah! / The Flywheel | 2015 | Erin Gough | Buy |
| 2 | Amelia Westlake Was Never Here | 2018 | Erin Gough | Buy |
Erin Gough’s two standalone novels are both set in Australia and center on teenage girls figuring out who they are. Get It Together, Delilah! (2015), also published as The Flywheel, is a queer YA romance about a girl trying to keep her father’s cafe running while falling for a classmate. It is funny and genuine, and it treats its love story with the kind of straightforward warmth that was still rare in YA at the time.
Amelia Westlake Was Never Here (2018) takes a different approach. Two students at a prestigious school, one a rule-follower and the other a troublemaker, invent a fake student to publicly call out the school’s failures. The novel is part satire, part romance, and part commentary on institutional power. Both books share Gough’s gift for writing teenagers who sound like actual teenagers.