You'll be sorry when I'm dead

✍ Scribed by Hardy, Marieke

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Atlantic [distributor]
Year: 2011;2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

From childhood dreams of prostitution to her unabashed passion for heavy drinking, from growing up wide-eyed on the set of Australian soaps to her infatuation with Bob Ellis, these are the outrageously entertaining and deeply revealing reminiscences of a multimedia star.

From stalking and eventually meeting herYoung Talent Timeidol when she was twelve, to a particularly abhorrent encounter at a high-quality swingers night, and a mildly perverse obsession with Bob Ellis, there is nothing Marieke Hardy won't write about. Welcome to a chronicle of broken hearts, fervid pursuits, passionate friendships, deranged letter-writing, the allure of the bottle, the singular charms of musicians, the lost song of youth, and three very awkward evenings with varying prostitutes--exactly zero percent of which the author's parents will want to read. Add to that a slightly misguided attempt to give real-life friends and ex-lovers a 'right of reply' to the stories they appear in and it's fair to say an extended stint in the Witness Protection Program beckons.

Confessional, voyeuristic, painful, hilarious and heartfelt,You'll Be Sorry When I'm Deadreveals the acerbic wit, unflinching gaze and razor-sharp insight of a writer at the height of her powers-or the unhinged fantasies of a dangerous mind with not enough to do.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 0
Dedication......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
A foreword by my father......Page 7
You can lead a horticulture......Page 9
The write stuff......Page 39
Forevz......Page 63
Maroon and blue......Page 85
Pour l'album......Page 103
The business......Page 123
A gentleman guest......Page 147
Swing, swang, swung......Page 167
YTT......Page 193
Down the hatch......Page 221
The Bubble......Page 239
Born this way......Page 257
Man bites dog......Page 279
An afterword by my ex-boyfriend Tim......Page 301
Acknowledgements......Page 304