Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed

Shannon Molloy

Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Australia
Country
Australia
Published
1 April 2020
Pages
320
ISBN
9781760851088

Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed

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 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.    

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