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Births Deaths Marriages by Georgie BlainGeorgia Blain has published four novels and her work has appeared in magazines and publications across Australia. She is possibly best known for her mother, Anne DevesonPublished 23 February, 2008 
Births Deaths Marriages (Georgie Blain, Random House, $24.95 pb, ISBN 9781741667486, March) ** Georgia Blain has published four novels and her work has appeared in magazines and publications across Australia. She is possibly best known for her mother, Anne Deveson, a popular journalist and author who wrote a devastating and powerfully insightful book about her son’s battle with schizophrenia. Blain has written a compelling memoir, confronting her bohemian childhood as well as her parents’ marriage, her brother’s death, becoming a mother and her own relationships. Within the covers of this book, Blain really confronts every aspect of her life and the difficulties she faced with each major event and decision she has made. It is an incredibly honest account of her life and clearly was a difficult book for her to write. You can really feel the cathartic process she has gone through as she confronts the different dimensions that have made her who she is. This memoir would appeal to those that enjoy a confronting biography of self-realisation—but it was at times difficult to relate to the personal insights and Melanie Barton is fiction category manager at Angus & Robertson This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Non-Fiction Book Reviews
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