Box Hill : a story of low self-esteem

In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self -- on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles over glamorous Ray -- ten years older, leather-clad, cool, handsome, a biker, and a top. (Colin, if largely unformed, is nevertheless decidedly a bottom.) Colin narrates his love --conveying how mind-blow...