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Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read.
From day one of her wildly unconventional childhood, Gina Chick blazed her own trail, which led her to dance through the hidden world of ’90s Sydney nightlife into the arms of a conman. She fled to the wilderness to find healing, began a wondrous love affair with the deepest lessons life – and death – can offer, and found that all the answers are written in the wisdom of the body and the whirling silence of stars.
If you’re ready to get lost in jungles, wander into wolf-dens, sing with storms, rescue orphaned animals, dive to the depths, dance ’til your knees wobble, fall in love, find yourself by losing it all, and most of all be real; this book is for you.
We Are the Stars is a magic carpet ride through the exquisite mystery of the human heart. You’ve never read anything like it.
Author: Gina Chick
Paperback Published 2 October 2024 448 pages
‘"I am a storm wrapped in skin", writes Gina Chick in this book full of bliss, sorrow,
earth and stars. I love Gina’s courage, her strength and her joy. Above all I admire
the life force that guides her through the worst of times to emerge on the other
side of that dark river with a truly rare perspicacity. A wild, creaturely memoir
that shows us how to really live.’– Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard Devotional
'Want to know what it’s like to spend time with someone so funny and wise and so brutally honest that your jaw is permanently on the floor and your heart is singing? Gina’s memoir quite simply broke me open. Her powerful poetic mixture of truth, humour, hard-fought wisdom and unblinking authenticity radiates from every page. From the first paragraph it dawned on me that this is unlike anything I have ever read before. I can’t wait to give this book to everyone I love. Read it.'– Hugh Jackman