	{"id":111122,"date":"2025-11-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballinatimes\/?p=111122"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:45:40","slug":"coming-of-age-novel-shines-light-on-adolescence-in-the-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballinatimes\/living\/coming-of-age-novel-shines-light-on-adolescence-in-the-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofie Laguna explores the part of growing up we don\u2019t talk about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY NYAH BARNES<\/p>\n<p>AUSTRALIAN author Sofie Laguna says her new novel &#8216;The Underworld&#8217; began unexpectedly one noisy Friday night in a Melbourne basketball stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Busy watching her nine\u2013year\u2013old son&#8217;s skills and drills session, Laguna opened her notebook and began to write.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very noisy, and I was sitting on the benches along the side with my notebook,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Being a writing parent, I&#8217;ve learned to find those opportunities absolutely anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amid the chaos, the character who would become Martha Mullins appeared fully formed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my attempt to endure the noise and create a kind of wall, this character poured forth with an enormous amount to say,&#8221; Laguna said.<\/p>\n<p>Set in 1970s Sydney, &#8216;The Underworld&#8217; tells the story of Martha&#8217;s transition from child to adult, exploring family, identity and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Laguna said adolescence was new territory for her, and it gave her a lot of opportunities to learn about writing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not a time I&#8217;ve ever explored in any novel before, but this voice suddenly had an enormous amount to say, and she said it with humour and with rage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She described this initial experience as &#8220;transcendent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When she reread her early pages that night, she knew something important had begun, &#8220;it was messy, but it had a heartbeat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laguna soon set aside another project to focus entirely on Martha&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I began to investigate the events of her life that were particularly formative, I learned I had to start the story when Martha is making that transition [to adulthood], a challenging, unsettling, thrilling time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laguna, a former actor trained at Melbourne&#8217;s Victorian College of the Arts, and now author, says writing requires the same immersion she once found in performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I loved being in character and it&#8217;s still one of my favourite things. Except I do it on the page, which asks for much greater discipline and rigour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It also gives me much greater range because I&#8217;m not limited by physicality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before turning to writing, Laguna faced years of inconsistent theatre work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was always very serious about my work life,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I had all those big dreams\u2026 so it was a painful journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/11\/Sofie_12899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"887\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian author Sofie Laguna learned a lot in the process of writing &#8216;The Underworld&#8217;, and hopes readers will be immersed in the world she enjoyed creating. Photos: SUPPLIED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the mid\u20131990s she began studying creative writing at RMIT, hoping to &#8220;write myself a show or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After one particularly difficult year in theatre, she decided to focus on writing, &#8220;I literally had a crystal-clear thought,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to focus on writing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks she had written a picture\u2013book manuscript, which was readily accepted for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Laguna was thrilled, &#8220;I never looked back,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I just wrote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laguna said her novels often draw from personal experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if we read and listen and learn all sorts of things from outside of us\u2026 it&#8217;s still being processed through the artist or the writer. So, it must all be their own life in a way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In writing &#8216;The Underworld&#8217;, she revisited some of her own teenage experiences, from boarding school, to learning Latin. In doing so, Martha continued to take shape.<\/p>\n<p>Setting the story in the 1970s allowed her to explore an era when gender roles and expectations were shifting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted her far away enough from more contemporary ideas of gender and sexuality. 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