Puberty Blues (Scripted, English)
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2012-08-15
Ended: 2014-05-07
Network: Network 10
Country: AU
Airs on: Wednesday
Air time: 20:30
Runtime: 45 minutes
Average rating: 6.5
A television adaptation of the 1979 Australian novel of the same name. Written by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, the feminist teen novel chronicles the lives of two 13-year-old girls from Sydney's Sutherland Shire who join the "Greenhill gang" surfers in an attempt to gain popularity.In 1981, the book was made into a film, directed by Bruce Beresford, with the girls' age changed to 16 for censorship reasons.