Young Lives

By Richard Le Gallienne

Book Overview

Young Lives follows a household shaped by rigid values and emotional restraint, where younger members struggle to define themselves against inherited expectations. The story explores generational pressure, moral discipline, and the quiet rebellion that grows when individuality is suppressed. Domestic space becomes a field of conflict between authority and self expression, with everyday interactions revealing deeper needs for recognition and freedom. The narrative studies how control, affection, and misunderstanding operate within family structure, showing how guidance can become limitation when empathy is absent. Attention is given to emotional awakening, private ambition, and the search for personal voice within a tightly ordered environment. Social manners and respectability are contrasted with inner unrest and creative longing. The work reflects on growth, identity, and emotional honesty, suggesting that maturity requires both separation and understanding. Tone blends sensitivity with reflective critique, presenting youth as a period of testing boundaries and forming convictions under watchful tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9378306683
• ISBN13: 9789378306686
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Double 9 Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"