Nineteen Seventy-nine is about a young girl who is very naive yet incredibly self-aware in the year that changed her life forever. Always an outsider, the Rhona of 1979 was desperate to fit in at any cost, and here lies the bittersweet humour. "a brutally candid account of life as a gay teenager ... the book ... does not disappoint, managing to hold together wildly contrasting strands of confessional writing, from the frothy to the darkly disturbing, all in a vivid and full-on style." Sunday Times, Scotland "utterly absorbing...extremely funny, totally unsentimental and required reading for anyone who might be in any doubt as to which way their own sexual pendulum is swinging ... For a read that's just like Rhona - eccentric, feisty and very funny - get your hands on this book." Jenny Eclair, Daily Mirror