olicooper2004 said:
my teacher discouraged everyone from using that one because it's a prescribed text for the syllabus (not sure if it's for standard or advanced), he said markers look down on it... but then again, he discourages us from quite a few texts like road not taken, songs etc because there's 'not enough content'... but that may just be personal preference.
Homland by Anna Maria Dell'oso's Homeland is good, I also used journey to the interior (it's more imaginary, but you can sort of twist it to relate to inner) by Margaret Atwood and Let it Go (Leunig) as my related texts.