Your Mother Would be Proud
By Tamara Sheward

Your Mother Would be Proud

Edited by Tamara Sheward

Jenny Valentish

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Whether it's cartwheeling naked across a rugby field in front of an audience of one billion (including your dad); playing eleven-minute soft rock tracks on night-shift radio as cover for some adult magazine fumblings; getting your appendix removed to avoid an English lesson; or stealing KISS's groupies and charging the champagne to Gene Simmons' hotel room - we've all done something in our dim, dark past that must never be spoken of again. Yet, bizarrely, the editors of Your Mother Would Be Proud have managed to persuade a host of Australia's best-known celebrities, writers, comedians, actors and muses to immortalise some of their most scurrilous secrets in print. The result is one of the most revealing collections of true life confessions ever to be compiled - and it's all for a good cause!

ISBN: 9781741756500
Classification: True stories , Humour
Format: Paperback (234mm x 155mm x mm)
Pages: 400
Publish Date: 1-Jul-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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4 star rating by Boomert - Your Mother Would be Proud by Tamara Sheward & Jenny Valentish 12 Jan 2010
As one would expect from an anthology entitled Your Mother Would Be Proud, this volume contains a variety of tales with a common theme: sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Not to be limited to one form of parental cringe though, it also features the drama and debauchery of university theatre clubs, a failed modelling career and one case of faked appendicitis. These stories are for the most part entertaining, well-written, hilarious and at times replete with personal reflection. Standouts include writer Emily Maguire’s adolescent homage to Jim Morrison and separate accounts of the arguably spectacular or dismal conclusion to the European tour of Dan Luscombe and Mike Noga’s Melbourne-based band, The Drones. Editors Sheward and Valentish each contribute their own shameful tales of public nudity and groupie-themed magazine creation respectively, with very funny results. Some of the pieces feature epilogues by others involved in the antics, which provide an interesting perspective to the shenanigans. All in all this is an entertaining collection for anyone who has ever done something to make their parents cringe and lived to laugh about it.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine (March 2009, Vol 88, No 6.) is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

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