Sydney, 1963. Sixteen-year-old Alice Skeffington has a big day ahead of her. She has school at the Conservatorium of Music, Physical Culture dance practice and then has to help Mum with preparing dinner. And tonight it's a favourite - corned beef with white sauce. But before she gets involved in all that she has to contend with the torment of her younger sister Valerie and her very bad singing…The Champion Girl is about an ideal life lived on leafy suburban streets...