How To Avoid A Happy Life

About the book

Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their own dodgy choices, lack of information and personal idiosyncrasies. Julia’s life sits at the intersection of all three. From high school dropout on a psych ward to card-carrying lesbian on a motorbike, from enduring a controlling relationship with her ex-lover’s brother to being chased by a media scrum outside a Perth court – the life of Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction: a wild and marvellous tale.

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Astute, compassionate, heartbreaking, compelling – and sometimes downright astonishing.

K- Kate Evans, ABC Radio National host of The Bookshelf

How To Avoid A Happy Life is a potent elixir of heartbreaking incident and astonishing resilience, and I’d have to add redemption. Julia Lawrinson is that rarest of things: a true original voice. Such an inventively irreverent and fearlessly honest memoir! This book is exactly what George Eliot meant when she said, “Literature of the most intimate sublimity can actually tell us how emotionally crowded any given day can be, and yet still have a distinct philosophical vigor and indispensability. ” Julia Lawrinson has dignified the art of memoir.

H- Howard Norman, US writer author of COME TO THE WINDOW

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