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- Winner, Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, 2016
- Winner, Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016
- Winner, Biography of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016
- Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2016
- Winner, Indie Award for Non-Fiction, 2016
- Shortlisted, Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016
- Shortlisted, Dobbie Literary Award, 2016
- Shortlisted, National Biography Award, 2016
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the multi-award winning book in which 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.
Author: Magda Szubanski.
Trade Paperback, 384 Pages, Orig. Publ. 2015, This Edition Publ. August 2016