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020			_a9781760296339 _qpaperback
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100	1		_9101748 _aClarke, Judith, _d1943- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMy lovely Frankie / _cJudith Clarke.
300			_a213 pages ; _c20 cm.
490	1		_aGLBTIQ
520			_aA masterful, moving story about a teenage boy caught between faith and love, by one of Australia's finest YA writers.
520			_a'Frankie believed in Heaven quite literally, as if it was another lovely world out past the stars. And when he spoke the word ""love"", it seemed to spring free and fly into the air like a beautiful balloon you wanted to run after. But I couldn't tell my parents about Frankie, not properly. I told them I'd made friends with the boy in the room next to mine, and how he'd come from this little town out west. I couldn't tell them how he was becoming the best thing in my world. I couldn't tell anyone, I hardly admitted it to myself.' In the 1950s, 'entering' the seminary was for ever, and young boys were gathered into the priesthood before they were old enough to know what they would lose. Tom went to St Finbar's because he was looking for something more than the ordinary happiness of his home and school. But then he discovered that being able to love another person was the most important thing of all. For Tom, loving Frankie made him part of the world. Even when Frankie was gone...
521			_a14 - 18 years old.
650		0	_9141332 _aGay teenagers _vTeen fiction.
650		0	_aHomosexuality _xReligious aspects _xCatholic Church _vTeen fiction. _9197964
650		0	_aReminiscing in old age _vTeen fiction. _9197965
650		0	_aCatholic Church _xClergy _xTraining of _zAustralia _vTeen fiction. _9197966
655		0	_9128700 _aYoung adult fiction.
830		0	_9195632 _aGLBTIQ.
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