Up We Grew: Stories of Australian Childhoods by Pamela Bone

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

In Up We Grew, award-winning journalist Pamela Bone provides a remarkable insight into how we are tempered and transformed by the process of growing up.

Taking as her starting point her own story of growing up in a small town on the Murray River after the war, Bone illuminates the influences that shape us from early life - family, friendships, and school.

Through interviews with Helen Coonan, Max Gillies, Terry Lane, Mark Latham, Michael Leunig, Joanna Murray-Smith and Natasha Stott Despoja, she considers how some famous and less well-known Australians coped with the death of a parent, divorce, difference, talent, opportunity, money, or the lack thereof. (publisher blurb)