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Reckoning
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Reckoning

A Memoir

Magda Szubanski
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01 August 2016
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2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Book of the Year Winner 2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Biography of the Year Winner 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Winner Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story.  In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father’s espionage activities in wartime Poland and by her secret awareness of her sexuality, to the complex dramas of adulthood and her need to find out the truth about herself and her family. With courage and compassion she addresses her own frailties and fears, and asks the big questions about life, about the shadows we inherit and the gifts we pass on.  Honest, poignant, utterly captivating, Reckoning announces the arrival of a fearless writer and natural storyteller. It will touch the lives of its readers.
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2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Book of the Year Winner 2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Biography of the Year Winner 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Winner Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story.  In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father’s espionage activities in wartime Poland and by her secret awareness of her sexuality, to the complex dramas of adulthood and her need to find out the truth about herself and her family. With courage and compassion she addresses her own frailties and fears, and asks the big questions about life, about the shadows we inherit and the gifts we pass on.  Honest, poignant, utterly captivating, Reckoning announces the arrival of a fearless writer and natural storyteller. It will touch the lives of its readers.

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