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    My Side of the Story

    By Will Davis

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    So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy?

    So what if your holier-than-thou sister (aka The Nun) and her posse have decided you're going to hell?

    So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi?

    Jaz isn't planning to lose any sleep over it - at least until he meets the guy of his dreams at the local gay bar. Suddenly things are a lot more complicated ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 15, 2010
    ISBN9781408820612
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    My Side of the Story
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    Will Davis

    Will Davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize 2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope), tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in London.

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    • 4/5
      LIC GAS!

      And don't ask me why!
    • 1/5
      The sleeve note has this as extremely funny - sorry Will - wasted on me.I finished reading it - but why I couldn't tell you - just stubborn I guess
    • 4/5
      Basically, I ended up falling in love with this book. It's extremely quirky and the main character is surprisingly lovable (in spite and because of his faults). The characters are well rounded, especially coming from a first person point of view novel. The writing is strong, though if you don't like British slang, this book might be hard to get through. It reminded me of Skins in many ways. And it ended perfectly, not a perfectly happy way, but just the way it needed to end. It was very funny and at times shockingly sad. I'm definitely glad I read it.
    • 3/5
      Will Davis' My Side of the Story is a fairly typical adolescent coming of age story and while it's not particularly innovative, it touches all the bases in reasonable fashion.Jaz is 16, studying for his A Levels, lives with his 'remarkably undivorced' parents, his religious younger sister and his grandmother, and sneaks out to go clubbing with his best mate Al(ice). As the book starts everyone - from his family, to the neo-Nazi bullies at school to the in-the-closet-at work teacher, have all just found out that Jaz is gay, which is what catapults the plot on. Davis takes Jaz round the usual houses - family squabbles, teenage angst, early mention of The Catcher in the Rye, running away from it all, trying to find your own space and own identity, school problems, and that most modern of touchstones, therapy - it's all here. Jaz narrates, a fast and breezy style, with a more or less convincing ear for adolescent speech (though it gets a bit overly repetitive in some places). He's a likeable enough kid, and his charm carries the book over some of the rockier patches. Partly because this is narrated by Jaz, and this is 'his side of the story' a lot of the other characters suffer in comparison, coming over as ciphers for Jaz to react against more than fully formed people in their own right. Arguably of course, that's a fairly accurate view of how a teenage boy sees the world. It's not particularly original, and it doesn't leap out and grab you with its intensity, but this is still a fun, zippy book, with a few laughs along the way, and Davis captures that universal feeling of being a teenager and thinking you know it all well.
    • 4/5
      Jarold, who prefers to known as Jaz, a troubled sixteen year old preparing to take his A level exams, tells his story as he sees it; and without the intention of winning any sympathy. He lives at home with his self-centred mother, a lawyer; his weak willed father, a chef; his pious younger sister (the Nun); and his widowed grandmother, his one ally at home.Jaz is gay, although to others he prefers to know as ?confused?. Along with best friend Alice, called Al, he frequents a local gay club where one day he meets Jon, and he is smitten; but nothing for Jaz is ever simple. Matters are not helped when Al outs him at school. Jaz speaks very much as a sixteen year old Londoner and directly to the reader in a very casual conversational manner; and the words flow with considerable ease making for a fluent and fast read. The result is an hilarious, witty, and yet appealing and moving story, and despite Jaz?s stated intentions, one cannot but help be endeared to him.