**The early novel that established Meg Wolitzer's career, later made into Nora Ephron's first film as a director.** The third book by *New York Times*-bestselling author Meg Wolitzer (originally published as *This Is Your Life*), a smart, witty and perceptive novel about the daughters of a fe
Is This My Beautiful Life: A Memoir
โ Scribed by Rowe, Jessica
- Book ID
- 109244363
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781743318362
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โฆ Synopsis
The fairytale I had dreamt up saw me still blazing ahead with my career, sharing the cooking and cleaning duties with my husband and having neat, tidy and well-behaved children who had beautifully brushed hair. But that was not my life.
Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador for beyondblue and patron of its work on post-natal depression, Member of the Order of Australia, risk-taker, social commentator, charity worker, public speaker, passionate mother and wife, Jessica Rowe is all of these things, and more. And in this extraordinary memoir, Jessica reveals herself as a woman who thought it would be easy to have it all, to do it all. But what was supposed to be her beautiful life derailed in the very public collapse of her television career accompanied by astonishingly hurtful public trolling, her long struggle to conceive, her fears and what she believed to be failings as a mother and in her professional life, and the diagnosis of post-natal...
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