Carmody is quite a famous author in Australia, so I read a lot of her books when I was a kid. I completely loved the Obernewytn series at the time though I never finished it (I think there's still one more book forthcoming). I recently started re-reading the first book, but got distracted a few chapters in so I cannot give an adult report. I must admit it does not start very promisingly - there's an Introduction filled with exposition about how the world came to be as it is now - nuclear war leading to mutations, powerful and ultra conservative faction leading the survivors, creation of a horrible new mutant-hating religion etc etc, several hundred years later: story begins! I find this sort of thing very tiresome. It's also unnecessary as it's all perfectly obvious from first few chapters. However I believe this was her first book, and I'm hopeful it will get better.

I also remember reading another of her books, Greylands, which I think was a allegory about depression or grief or something. I did not think much of it at the time.