I really enjoyed this Aug 2023

Not quite an autobiography yet autobiographical, more a musing on life as Colleen McCullough knows it. There's an eclectic mix of subject matter and I particularly enjoyed the stories behind the story of her writing and books. The personal pieces about her much loved brother and dysfunctional parents was told with a unembellished honesty. Colleen McCullough would have been an interesting woman to meet, she's intelligent, well read, extremely well read and talks with a directness I appreciate, no fluffy frills. Amazingly for someone we think of as a successful writer she had a fairly constant battle with her publishers. I was very pleased to read that the book she enjoyed writing the most - Angel Puss - is also the one I enjoyed reading the most, she actually calls it ".....a complete self-indulgence" ( )