The Year of Freaking Out
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| Author | Sarah Walker |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | young adult, lesbian |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan Australia |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 230 pages (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-330-35972-X (first edition, paperback) |
| OCLC | 38407159 |
The Year of Freaking Out is a 1997 Australian young adult novel by Sarah Walker about 17-year-old Kim, her relationship with her childhood friend Matthew and her passionate friendship with the new girl at school, Rachel.[1][2]
Reception
[edit]Lucy Lehmann of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "So many exciting things happened while the reader wasn't around, that I began to feel that I had missed out on all the action."[3] Thuy On of The Age opined that the novel "fails to move beyond a cossetted, cotton-woolled world; it deals more with internal sexual tension than critical external ones."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Year of Freaking Out". Lesbians on the Loose. Vol. 8, no. 6. June 1997. p. 31. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- ^ Guertin, Lachlan (20 August 2018). "The difficulties of obtaining on-screen representation". Hatch. Archived from the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ Lehmann, Lucy (3 May 1997). "Left longing for the bits Kim left out". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
- ^ On, Thuy (6 April 1997). "Friends in all the right and wrong places". The Age. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
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