Our hoax was the most fun thing I did in my entire school career, and every time I see Amelia Westlake’s name on the cover of my published book, I want to laugh out loud. Amelia Westlake donated prizes to Trivia Night, she sent postcards from exotic locations, she even entered a painting (depicting a giant question mark) in the final year art exhibition. We carried on pranking until the end of the year without anyone discovering the truth. It is safe to say our classmates became somewhat obsessed with finding out who Amelia Westlake was. We began small, putting Amelia’s name down on lists for sports teams, graffitiing it on school desks, and accepting birthday party invitations on her behalf. Our aim was to amuse ourselves and, with any luck, our fellow classmates by creating an imaginary student called Amelia Westlake. Amelia Westlake Was Never Here was inspired by a hoax that two friends and I invented in our final year of high school.
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