The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

LoveReading Says

From the author of Lovereading favourite We Are All Made of Molecules, this is another book that grips from the first chapter, a heart-breaking story that will nonetheless make readers laugh and leave them feeling better about the world. Henry’s life is changed for ever by ‘IT’, a terrible event that we learn about through the journal his psychologist encourages him to keep, and which describes, gradually and in surprising ways, how through new friendships and the Global Wrestling Foundation, he finds ways to cope. Nielsen writes about the heaviest subjects with the lightest of touches: here it’s suicide, bullying, breakdown but so subtly described, the balance between tragedy and humour so carefully managed, that this is a truly uplifting, even happy read.

Jessica’s Ghost by Andrew Norriss is also a subtle story of teenage suicide and equally heart-warming and bullying is handled as obliquely but revealingly in The Icarus Show by Sally Christie. ~ Andrea Reece

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award.

Andrea Reece

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