How to Be Happy: a memoir of love, sex and teenage confusion

Name: How to Be Happy: a memoir of love, sex and teenage confusion
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: David Burton
ISBN: 9781094273037

Author: David Burton

Narrator: David Burton

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: David Burton

Published: 04/01/2017

Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Boys & Men

Synopsis

Winner, The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, 2014A funny, sad and serious memoir, How to Be Happy is David Burton’s story of his turbulent life at high school and beyond. Feeling out of place and convinced that he is not normal, David has a rocky start. He longs to have a girlfriend, but his first ‘date’ is a disaster. There’s the catastrophe of the school swimming carnival—David is not sporty—and friendships that take devastating turns. Then he finds some solace in drama classes with the creation of ‘Crazy Dave’, and he builds a life where everything is fine. But everything is not fine.And, at the centre of it all, trying desperately to work it all out, is the real David.How to Be Happy tackles depression, friendship, sexual identity, suicide, academic pressure, love and adolescent confusion. It’s a brave and honest account of one young man’s search for a happy, true and meaningful life that will resonate with readers young and old.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Silvia

I was sent this book as an ARC by the publisher via NetGalley for reviewing purposes, but all opinions are my own. 4,5 stars First off, let me start by saying that if this had been fiction instead of a memoir, probably my rating and my feelings towards this would be slightly different. But because the......more

Goodreads review by Λίνα

For English scroll down Το How to be happy είναι οι σκέψεις, οι προβληματισμοί (και είχε πολλούς), οι φόβοι, οι ελπίδες και τα όνειρα του David Burton (ο συγγραφέας). Στο βιβλίο αυτό βλέπουμε έναν David ο οποίος είναι ένας τρομοκρατημένος 13χρονος που ετοιμάζεται να φύγει από την ασφάλεια του Δημοτικ......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

How to be Happy by David Burton isn't exactly a how-to on how to enjoy life, more like a series of anecdotes of what not to do in some situations. I devoured it over 2 days. I believe I'm only a few years younger than David and had a pretty similar school experience. Girls cutting themselves, bullyin......more

Goodreads review by Lynn

This wasabook I'd bought for my library because it got great reviews, then saw that it was one of 'those' books we weren't recommended to have at school because it mentions suicide. So I shoved it on a shelf in my office to read and finally, I have. What a great book - teenage confusion at it's best......more