about the author

Australian born, growing up in a small town outside Sydney, McBride started his writing from childhood, creating short stories for his parents. McBride would continue his writing, experimenting in different fields.Gradually, McBride moved into the film industry, writing short and full-length screenplays, including producing and directing his own work. Whilst working on film sets around Sydney, McBride came up with the desire to commence work on his premise for his debut novel.Held is McBride’s first novel.

about the book

A love story spanning decades as two men not only fight the world for their love and its changes surrounding them but also one another while they battle the one thing that tears them apart.At the tender age of fifteen, Matt and Justin instantly fall in love. While time grows and matures, so do they and their relationship. Years pass and are torn from one another as their lives take them in separate directions. The political and social constructs start to define their lives and the people who they become.Can what we believe holds us, end up being our own destructive force, potentially being the one thing that destroys us, crumbling our lives?Eventually, we all have to let go.

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