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

    Written by David Burton

    Narrated by David Burton

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    Winner, The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, 2014

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Burton
    Release dateApr 1, 2017
    ISBN9781094273037
    How to Be Happy: a memoir of love, sex and teenage confusion
    Author

    David Burton

    David Burton is an American writer living in sunny Southern California. He traveled by motorcycle through Mexico, US, Canada and Alaska. From motorcycles he turned to the ocean, building and sailing his own boats to Mexico, Tahiti, Hawaii, and through the Panama Canal to Florida. He spent a lot of time reading while on the water, so he decided to write books he would have wanted to read at sea.Having swallowed the anchor he now mops floors and collects trash for money, writes for a living, and has become a (temporarily?) unrequited sailor.

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