{"product_id":"9781925095128","title":"Hello, Beautiful!: Scenes from a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir in parts, from one of Australia's best-loved playwrights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHannie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eHello, Beautiful!\u003c\/i\u003e captures a life behind the scenes - a life of tender moments, hilarious encounters and, inevitably, drama.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannie Rayson\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright and screenwriter. Her works - including \u003ci\u003eHotel Sorrento\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInheritance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife After George\u003c\/i\u003e - have been performed around Australia and internationally. She has been awarded two Australian Writers' Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier's Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Her play \u003ci\u003eLife After George\u003c\/i\u003e was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Hannie lives in Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘So beautifully written, so funny, so insightful and so obviously written by a warm and appealing human being.’ David Williamson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Smart, witty, warm, self effacing and hilarious. Each chapter is a shining gem—a passionate view, a formative experience, a mortifying anecdote. Hannie Rayson’s insight, honesty and ear for dialogue as one of Australia’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 didn’t want it to end.’ Kat Stewart \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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. \u003ci\u003eHello, Beautiful!\u003c\/i\u003e is as nourishing and delicious as home-made soup.’ Noni Hazlehurst \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Hannie’s writing shows the extraordinary truth of ordinary life—that it is, in fact, anything but ordinary. I was glued to this delightful book.’ Sigrid Thornton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Think of this as bottled sunshine….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.’ Caroline Baum, \u003ci\u003eBooktopia Buzz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This is a book that welcomes readers generously into its author’s secure and stimulating private world – and makes us wish, as we reluctantly close the final chapter, that we could be there for real.’ Adelaide \u003ci\u003eAdvertiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A book of beautifully crafted, free-flowing vignettes that illuminates with warmth and humour.‘ \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Every chapter tickles.’ \u003ci\u003eCountry Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Rayson’s vignettes are perfectly constructed and she is a virtuoso of self-deprecating humour.’ \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘With her cooly curious eye and facility for dialogue, Rayson has chronicled key moments in the nation’s social history…\u003ci\u003eHello, Beautiful!\u003c\/i\u003e is a scrapbook of Rayson’s family foibles, thoughts and simple dreams.’ \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.’ \u003ci\u003eGood Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Beautifully structured and articulated, not to mention hilarious….Rayson reels you in with her storytelling.’ \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘An easy, entertaining read, written in a chatty, friendly, open style.’ \u003ci\u003eStarts at Sixty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137388593392,"sku":"9781925095128","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925095128_p0.jpg?v=1763634261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925095128","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}