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My Year Of Living Vulnerably

My Year Of Living Vulnerably

by Rick Morton
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/03/2021

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From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably.

In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't.

So, over the course of twelve months, he went on a journey to rediscover love. To get better. Not cured, not fixed. Just, better. This is a book about his journey to betterness, his year of living vulnerably. It's a book about love. What love is, how we see it, what forms it takes, how we practice it in our lives, what it means to us, and how we really, really can't live without it, even if, like Rick for many years, we think we can.

As he says: 'People think they want cars, and they will, to get to jobs and appointments in cities and regions where public transport has failed them. But what gets them into those cars, out of the house, out of bed for God's sake, is love.'

ISBN:
9781460759110
9781460759110
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-03-2021
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x25mm
Weight:
0.39kg

'Morton is fresh ... He's brilliant.'
Helen Elliott, The Monthly

'Dark and provocative ... It's one of the saddest books I have read in a while, and one of the most honest .... I think this book should be read by every Australian.'
Stephen Romei, The Australian

'Morton is a crack storyteller and his words and stories are infused with genuine compassion.'
Christos Tsiolkas

Rick Morton

Rick Morton has been a journalist and writer for over 14 years. His first book, One Hundred Years of Dirt, was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2019 National Biography Award, longlisted for the 2018 Walkley Book of the Year, and longlisted for both Biography of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the 2019 ABIA Awards.

Rick is the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Award for Young Journalist of the Year and the 2017 Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist. In 2019, Rick left The Australian where he worked as the social affairs writer with a particular focus on social policy and is now a Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper.

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