The Year of Freaking Out

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The Year of Freaking Out
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Author Sarah Walker
LanguageEnglish
Genre young adult,
lesbian
Publisher Pan Macmillan Australia
Publication date
1997
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages230 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

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

  1. ↑ "The Year of Freaking Out". Lesbians on the Loose . Vol. 8, no. 6. June 1997. p. 31. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Lehmann, Lucy (3 May 1997). "Left longing for the bits Kim left out". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  4. ↑ On, Thuy (6 April 1997). "Friends in all the right and wrong places". The Age . Retrieved 17 February 2025.
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