1998: Sixty Days of Summer

Based on real events, 1998: Sixty Days of Summer is an autobiographical novel and coming-of-age story exploring the lives of the author and his close group of friends at the height of the skateboarding resurgence of the mid-90s. Firmly rooted in the West Coast skateboarding scene, the crew is forced to confront situations which test their friendships and relationships, scratching beneath the hypermasculine veneer of the era's skateboarding culture to reveal unbreakable bonds, compassion, respect and camaraderie. Exploring issues including abuse, death, sexuality and rape, the novel is written in the gritty language of the era, during a time when emotion was buried and image was everything.