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Josephine Alibrandi is a 17 year old catholic girl who has far more to contend to than her study in her final year at school. This year her life is turned upside down when her father comes into her life for the first time, her close friend commits suicide, family secrets come out, she forms a relationship with Jacob Coote plus Josie has to figure out her own identity.
Josie attends St Martha's, a wealthy catholic school in Sydney's Eastern suburbs on an academic scholarship. At school Josie feels like she is the odd one out, being ethnic, plus all the other students come from wealthy backgrounds.
All her life Josie has felt like an outsider. Her birth itself was the beginning of a life as an outcast in the eyes of the Italian community as Christina was unwed and the identity of Josie's father was unknown.…