Try Hard: Tales from the Life of a Needy Overachiever

✍ Scribed by Rusciano, Em

• Book ID: 109987021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925310757

✦ Synopsis

A hilarious, heartfelt memoir from one of Australia's most adored performers

Funny, feisty and fabulous, Em Rusciano's insights into her world of mayhem, marriage and motherhood are a laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud balm for the soul.

From her exploits at the Miss Sheila Fancypants School of Dance and her efforts to secure a solo at her end-of-year performance, to embracing the spotlight as an Australian Idol contestant and her deep and abiding love for John Farnham, Em Rusciano is a self-confessed bottomless pit of anxiety with a taste for glitter.

And behind the stage make-up Em is an overachiever of epic proportions, camp to the core and fiercely maternal. She has all the insecurities of a person who spends their nights racked with self-doubt and all the confidence of a woman who can walk out onto a stage in front of a sold-out theatre and absolutely slay the crowd. Em has an army of gay men she adores, tells the best dirty jokes and loves...