A memoir in parts; from one of Australias best-loved playwrights. Hannie Rayson - writer; mother; daughter; sister; wife; romantic; adventuress; parking-spot optimist - has spent a lifetime giving voice to others in the many roles she has written for stage and television. In her new book; she shines the spotlight on herself. This collection of stories from a dramatic life radiate with the great warmth and humour that has made Hannie one of the best-known playwrights in the country. From a childhood in Brighton to a urinary tract infection in Spain; from a body buried under the house to a play on a tram; Hello; Beautiful! captures a life behind the scenes - a life of tender moments; hilarious encounters and; inevitably; drama. Hannie Rayson is a playwright and screenwriter. Her works - including Hotel Sorrento; Inheritance and Life After George - have been performed around Australia and internationally. She has been awarded two Australian Writers Guild Awards; four Helpmann Awards; two NSW Premiers Literary Awards and a Victorian Premiers Literary Award. Her play Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Hannie lives in Melbourne. lsquo;So beautifully written; so funny; so insightful and so obviously written by a warm and appealing human being.rsquo; David Williamson lsquo;Smart; witty; warm; self effacing and hilarious. Each chapter is a shining gemmdash;a passionate view; a formative experience; a mortifying anecdote. Hannie Raysonrsquo;s insight; honesty and ear for dialogue as one of Australiarsquo;s foremost playwrights is beyond dispute. Here she turns her talents to memoir and those closest to her with results so disarming and entertaining I didnrsquo;t want it to end.rsquo; Kat Stewart lsquo;Hannie paints with vivid colours. Her development as a writer and a woman is richly portrayed; with all the shades of intense feeling and emotion that her dramatic characters share spilling from the page in a riot of evocative memories. Hello; Beautiful! is as nourishing and delicious as home-made soup.rsquo; Noni Hazlehurst lsquo;Hanniersquo;s writing shows the extraordinary truth of ordinary lifemdash;that it is; in fact; anything but ordinary. I was glued to this delightful book.rsquo; Sigrid Thornton lsquo;Think of this as bottled sunshinehellip;.her anecdotes about family; friends and the community she belongs to; are told with perfect comic timing and one of the most acute ears in the business for dialogue.rsquo; Caroline Baum; Booktopia Buzz lsquo;This is a book that welcomes readers generously into its authorrsquo;s secure and stimulating private world ndash; and makes us wish; as we reluctantly close the final chapter; that we could be there for real.rsquo; Adelaide Advertiser lsquo;A book of beautifully crafted; free-flowing vignettes that illuminates with warmth and humour.lsquo; Australian lsquo;Every chapter tickles.rsquo; Country Living lsquo;Raysonrsquo;s vignettes are perfectly constructed and she is a virtuoso of self-deprecating humour.rsquo; Sydney Morning Herald lsquo;With her cooly curious eye and facility for dialogue; Rayson has chronicled key moments in the nationrsquo;s social historyhellip;Hello; Beautiful! is a scrapbook of Raysonrsquo;s family foibles; thoughts and simple dreams.rsquo; Big Issue lsquo;It was a pleasure to read such a refreshing take on the genre of memoir; written with skill; warmth and optimism. Like every good theatrical experience; you are left wanting more.rsquo; Good Reading lsquo;Beautifully structured and articulated; not to mention hilarioushellip;.Rayson reels you in with her storytelling.rsquo; Australian Book Review lsquo;An easy; entertaining read; written in a chatty; friendly; open style.rsquo; Starts at Sixty
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Could not read; some staff lines missing; handwritten chordsBy Todd WWhen I recd this; I promptly requested a refund. An entire line of the music was missing the staff lines; all chords were handwritten and some were not legible in the small print; and I found no way to make the music or text larger in either the PC Kindle or Kindle interface so the lyrics remained illegible.Also; perhaps unrelated to the product; this item kept delivering the sample version to both my PC Kindle and Kindle at first.
