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What Love Looks Like Jarlath Gregory

What Love Looks Like By Jarlath Gregory

What Love Looks Like by Jarlath Gregory


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Summary

Ben Brennan, is 17, gay, and happy most of the time. He's finished school and is on track to a great career - all that's missing is falling in love. Can Ben navigate the pitfalls of modern gay dating, with all its expectations, and be true to himself?

What Love Looks Like Summary

What Love Looks Like: Sometimes love turns up where you least expect it by Jarlath Gregory

When Ireland voted to let gay people get married, my stepdad hugged me and said,
'Your turn next, Ben! Get yourself a boyfriend. Make us proud.'
So I decided to try.

Ben is 17, gay, and happy most of the time. He's finished school and is on track to a great career - all that's missing is falling in love. Romantic but a little naive, Ben meets Peter online. But the guy of his dreams is still in the closet, his pal Soda is suddenly more interested in nights in than nights out, and his old school bully seems determined to ruin his life. Then, on top of everything else, his best friend, Chelsea, goes AWOL - just when he needs her most.

Everything is changing and Ben's not sure what to do. But change brings all kinds of possibilities. You just have to be ready to see them.

Can Ben navigate the pitfalls of modern gay dating, with all its highly sexualised expectations, and be true to himself?

What Love Looks Like Reviews

A great coming of age queer YA that had me smiling all the way through

* @bookfacejames *

An important addition to the LGBTQ canon and a tender, poignant love story, What Love Looks Like paints a vivid picture of what it feels like to come-of-age as a young, gay person in todays' Ireland. Bens' life is filled with an array of people from varied backgrounds, bringing a broad diversity and experience to the story and shows them off with reality...warts and all. This allows the reader to get a strong sense of the reality of Bens' life. It reads as a genuine experience; Ben reads as a real person and the story is totally believable from start to finish. There are discomforting moments as the tale deals with issues of homophobia, bullying and social stereo-typing. But all in all it is a touching romance, exploring a wider view of what love actually looks like, gender identity, how families differ from one another and how they are built. Raw, fresh and intriguing, What Love Looks Like is also, funny, moving and true. (Please note: this book is definitely for older readers

* Fallen Star Stories *

One book cannot be all things to all people. It can't represent everyone," Gregory points out, but while presenting a picture of the ordinariness of some LGBTQ lives, his book, released next month, does a pretty good job of representing the rainbow spectrum of gay and trans diversity to a young adult readership

* Evening Echo *

About Jarlath Gregory

Jarlath Gregory is from Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, and currently lives in Stoneybatter, Dublin. He is the author of Snapshots (2001), G.A.A.Y One Hundred Ways to Love a Beautiful Loser (2005), and The Organised Criminal (2015). He has also worked as a bookseller in Chapters Bookstore, and written for Attitude, Esquire and GCN magazines. He recently completed the M.Phil in Creative Writing in Trinity College Dublin and currently works as a freelance copywriter.

Additional information

GOR013015198
9781788491624
1788491629
What Love Looks Like: Sometimes love turns up where you least expect it by Jarlath Gregory
Used - Like New
Paperback
O'Brien Press Ltd
2021-03-22
240
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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