Review: Unloveable by Darren Hayes
Trigger Warnings: Discussions of domestic violence, homophobia and bullying. Special request: This memoir is incredibly raw and candid. As such, I ask that no one tags the author in the review on social media or anywhere else online. (I'm not trying to start anything here, I just don't want someone to feel forced to see or read what is, essentially, an unsolicited review of a deeply personal work.) Darren Hayes memoir may be called Unloveable (the title is taken from one of his most powerful songs) but at its heart is a testimony to the beauty and the power of the love of his mother, Judy, to whom the book is dedicated. Growing up in the rough outer suburbs of Brisbane, Darren Hayes was a kid with a big imagination who was deeply loved by his mum and his older sister, Tracey. He dreamed of being a pop star, worked at the coolest indie record store in town and eventually went on to sell something along the lines of thirty million albums as the front man of Savage Garden--an