"A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia''s most iconic music performers.You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her striding and scowling down Sydney''s back streets in an oversize coat or galavanting around a golf course wearing a close approximation of plus fours means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you probably don''t know the half of it. And there''s a lot to know.If you have listened to any of Deborah Conway''s songs and were half curious about the origins; if you have ever wondered whatever happened to that chick who covered herself in Nutella and was photographed shovelling cream cakes in to her mouth; if you gave a nanosecond of thought to whose bare arse adorned the giant Billboard ads for Bluegrass jeans in the 1980''s and how much someone could get paid to do that; if you liked Tracey Mann''s vocals in The Takeaways but asked yourself, ""did she really sing them?""; if you were a movie buff who thought Running On Empty was a classic BEFORE it became a cult phenomenon and need behind the scenes gossip, now''s your chance to find out all this and so much more.Conway pulls back the curtain on the fevered world of a 1980''s post punk band, the spectacular rise and fall and rise of one of the more obstreperous women working inside Australia''s music industry, a woman who has straddled the high arts and the low without losing her footing or her mind and whose fierce independence has seen her produce her best work.Book Of Life: the good, the bad, and the ugly of being alive in the 20th and 21st centuries from the vantage point of a music insider (and outsider) with a deep need to tell the truth about it all."
