The Year of Freaking Out

The Year of Freaking Out is a 1997 Australian young adult novel by Sarah Walker about 17-year-old Kim, her relationship with her childhood friend Matthew and her passionate friendship with the new girl at school, Rachel.

Reception

Lucy Lehmann of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "So many exciting things happened while the reader wasn't around, that I began to feel that I had missed out on all the action." Thuy On of The Age opined that the novel "fails to move beyond a cossetted, cotton-woolled world; it deals more with internal sexual tension than critical external ones."