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1979: A Big Year in a Small Town
1979 takes place in a small fishing town called Musselburgh, situated on the east coast of Scotland. It's about a young girl who is very naive yet incredibly self-aware in the year that changed her life forever 15 year-old boys with their girlfriends for their first underage drink. Wives with their husbands for the Christmas disco. And behind the club, outside, Rhona and h...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 3rd 2004
by Ebury Press
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This book may only cover a year of her life, but Rhona Cameron covers the year in which she became an adult. When her father passed away I had to choke back the tears (I was in public), it was so moving and so heart-wrenchingly painful. She perfectly describes the pain of being a teenager, the insecurity and desperate longing to belong whilst wanting to maintain one's individuality. I can't imagine what it must be like to be gay in a small Scottish community, but I can now understand it. She...more
I was recommended this book by a friend of mine but to be honest...as much as I really, really wanted to like it, by the time I finished I thought "what was the point in that then?". I like Rhona Cameron's comedy and thought this might be worth a read but instead I found the writing bland. Bit disappointed but there we go.
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