Top End Girl
$33.85
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2020
Summary
A deadly memoir about being bold, black and brave in work, life and love
‘Sharing my story is important … I think it is true that you don’t aspire to be what you cannot see. I would like this book to show you that you can push yourself to do things you never dreamed you would do.’
As a young Larrakia Tiwi girl Miranda Tapsell often felt like an outsider. Growing up, she looked for faces like hers on our screens. There weren’t many. And too often there was a ne…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733642432 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0733642438 |
| Author: | Miranda Tapsell |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 154mm x 28mm |
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Tapsell’s career has a long way to go, but what a start. * VIC [PRINT] Weekly Times, Melbourne [AUDIENCE: 50,808 ASR: AUD 1,885] *The NT darling’s new book is one that is sure to make you proud to be a Territorian, and even prouder that Tapsell, such a talented and down to earth star, is one as well. * NT [PRINT] Centralian Advocate [AUDIENCE : 3,072 ASR: AUD 2,775] *The book is written in a conversational style - you can hear her voice and her laugh. * [ONLINE] *
About The Author
Miranda Tapsell
Miranda Tapsell was born in Darwin and her people are the Larrakia. She grew up in Kakadu National Park and began performing at the age of seven. At 16, she won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship. After finishing school she was accepted to study at NIDA fulltime and since graduating has built a stellar career on stage, screen and television. After a starring role the world-renowned film The Sapphires, Miranda received two Logie Awards for her role in Love Child. A career highlight saw Miranda cast as the new host of the perennial favourite children’s series, Play School. Recently, she has had roles on Channel 9’s Doctor Doctor, ABC’s comedy Get Krackin’, legal drama Newton’s Law for ABCTV, Foxtel’s Secret City as well as ABCTV’s Cleverman and Stan’s Wolf Creek.
She wrote, produced and starred in the box office hit Top End Wedding and has her own podcast on BuzzFeed, Pretty for an Aboriginal, with Nakkiah Lui, which rocks the traditional perceptions of Indigenous Australia and challenges rigid mindsets of what women of colour can and cannot do. Top End Girl is her literary debut.
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