A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life 'a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor'face an
Your Own Kind of Girl
β Scribed by Bowditch Clare
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Sydney
- ISBN
- 1760872849
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.
Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the stories she used to tell herself? That 'real life' only begins once you're thin or beautiful, that good things only happen to other people.
YOUR OWN KIND OF GIRL reveals a childhood punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion, and tells how these forces shaped Clare's life for better and for worse. This is a heartbreaking, wise and at times playful memoir. Clare's own story told raw and as it happened. A reminder that even on the darkest of nights, victory is closer than it seems.
With startling candour, Clare lays bare her truth in the hope that doing so will inspire anyone who's ever done battle with their inner critic. This is the work of a woman who has found...
β¦ Subjects
Autobiography
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