Fourteen / by Shannon Molloy.
Publication details: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2020.Description: x, 305 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760851088 (pbk.)
- 1760851086 (pbk.)
- 14
- Fourteen : a memoir
- Molloy, Shannon
- Molloy, Shannon -- Childhood and youth
- Molloy, Shannon
- Autobiographies
- Gay teenagers -- Biography
- Catholic schools -- Queensland -- Biography
- Victims of bullying -- Biography
- Families -- Biography
- Mother and sons -- Biography
- Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
- Gay men -- Australia -- Biography
- Journalists, Australian -- Biography
- Gay students -- Australia -- Biography
- Biography: general
- Self-help & personal development
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- Gay teenagers -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography
- Teenage boys -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography
- Gay teenagers
- Teenage boys
- Queensland
- Australian
- 306.7660835/092 23
- HQ76.27.Y68 M65 2020
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 306.766 MOL | Available | 062443 |
"My year of darkness, and the light that followed"--Cover.
This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland. It was a year in which I started to discover who I was, and deeply hated what was revealed. It was a year in which I had my first crush and first devastating heartbreak. It was a year of torment, bullying and betrayal ? not just at the hands of my peers, but by adults who were meant to protect me. And it was a year that almost ended tragically. I found solace in writing and my budding journalism; in a close-knit group of friends, all growing up too quickly together; and in the fierce protection of family and a mother?s unconditional love. These were moments of light and hilarity that kept me going. As much as Fourteen is a chronicle of the enormous struggle and adversity I endured, and the shocking consequences of it all, it?s also a tale of survival. Because I did survive.