How to Be Happy How to Be Happy

How to Be Happy

A Memoir of Love, Sex and Teenage Confusion

    • 4.9 • 9 Ratings
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

A 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.


David Burton is a twenty-seven-year-old writer from Brisbane, best known for his theatre work. His play April's Fool (Playlab Press) toured nationally in 2012. He has recently co-written Hedonism's Second Album for La Boite indie, and The Landmine Is Me for Queensland Theatre Company. A speaker and presenter in school across Queensland, David is passionate about sharing his remarkable story with young people. How to Be Happy won the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing in 2014.

GENRE
Young Adults
RELEASED
2015
26 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
The Text Publishing Company
SELLER
Text Publishing
SIZE
3.9
MB
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