Becoming Nancy

David Starr lives with his parents in a semi-detached in 1970s’ East Dulwich. He is fifteen years old, cheeky, boisterous, passionate about drama and music, and in love with his friend, Maxie Boswell. But that can’t be right, can it? Because surely that would mean David would be… gay? Becoming Nancy is a wonderful coming-of-age novel about coming out and falling in love in working-class 1970s’ London. It is filled with fantastically original characters u such as David’s drama teacher Hamish who is ‘exotically both Scottish, and homosexual’ u brilliantly acute observations on adolescence, hilarious one liners, and nostalgic musical references that will transport you straight back to the seventies and eighties. Warm, colourful and full of life, Becoming Nancy will touch your heart and leave you wishing you could hang out with the wonderful David Starr.