Fourteen - Shannon Molloy

Fourteen is this generation's 'Holding the Man' - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school.

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 startle 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 lose-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, all set to the soundtrack of the best of late-90s pop.

As much as 'Fourteen' is a chronicle of the enormous adversity I endured, and the shocking consequences of it all, it's also a tale of survival.

Because I did survive.

Format: Paperback

Inscribed: N

Pages: 305

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 2020 First Edition

ISBN: 9781760851088

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