How to Make Gravy
Hamish Hamilton, $49.95 hb, 568 pp
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
by Anna Goldsworthy •
In his ‘mongrel memoir’, How to Make Gravy, singer–songwriter Paul Kelly describes the ‘pretendies’ that can ambush a musician on stage: ‘One minute you’re putting a song over to the crowd, totally inside what you’re doing, everything meshing, then suddenly you’re adrift, floating above yourself and wondering what on earth you’re doing there.’
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