AustLit logo

AustLit

Clare Bowditch Clare Bowditch i(17061022 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Singer-songwriter. In 2019, Bowditch released her autobiography.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Your Own Kind of Girl : A Memoir Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2019 17061044 2019 single work autobiography

'Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the stories she used to tell herself? That 'real life' only begins once you're thin or beautiful, that good things only happen to other people.

'Your Own Kind of Girl reveals a childhood punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion and tells how these forces shaped Clare's life for better and for worse. This is a heart-breaking, wise and at times playful memoir. Clare's own story told raw and as it happened. A reminder that even on the darkest of nights, victory is closer than it seems.

'With startling candour, Clare lays bare her truth in the hope that doing so will inspire anyone who's ever done battle with their inner critic. This is the work of a woman who has found her true power— and wants to pass it on. Happiness, we discover, is only possible when we take charge of the stories we tell ourselves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 longlisted Booksellers Choice Award Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2020 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Biography of the Year
2020 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir designed by Lisa White
2020 shortlisted Indie Awards Nonfiction
Last amended 5 Aug 2019 16:05:04
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X