I grew up watching Judith Lucy on the late show. I loved her sarcastic tone. I saw her speak at the 2008 Sydney Writer's festival and got my copy of the book signed. The book is written with each chapter a letter with a topical word from Judith Lucy's childhood.
Her family were a kooky bunch. Her mother didn't liked running water so Judith didn't use a shower till her teens. Her father wore make up. After a childhood of weirdness and devout Catholicism . Judith moved to Melbourne and took up drinking and smoking and after one disastrous Christmas she finds out that she was adopted. This leads to a world trip soul searching and being depressed. When she returns she finds her biological mother (which leads to tension with her mother).
I really liked this book, the alphabet chapters cuts what could be a slightly harrowing childhood into funny awkward read.
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