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1 y separately published work icon The Overthinkers Lisa Portolan , Ben Cheong , Newport : Big Sky Publishing , 2021 21935466 2021 single work novel

'Four people, figuring out sex, love, and how to ‘adult.’ Sydney – one of those places that just consumes you. A private school boy, a tortured drug dealer, a starving artist and a gay outcast, try to do their best as they navigate through the unspoken rules which govern the fast paced, status obsessed harbour city.

'Benji: desperate to stand on his own, and be perceived as separate to his overachieving family.

'Francesca: plotting her remarkable and glamorous future.

'Leo: the confident gay-sian, but despite the pretence, lacks a sense of identity and self-worth.

'Hamish: fell into drugs to distinguish himself.

'Four stories interlaced together. Anxiety masked as confidence. Ambitions as arrogance. Insecurities which fester … until the cracks appear in the perfect façade.'

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