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Memoir

Quiet achiever

Brenda Niall’s new memoir
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April 2022, no. 441

My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall

Text Publishing, $34.99 pb, 293 pp

Memoir

Quiet achiever

Brenda Niall’s new memoir
by •
April 2022, no. 441

It’s always interesting to see biographers decide to turn the spotlight upon themselves, and to ask why. Will it be another case of ‘now it’s my turn’? The need to confess, even to enter into the Land of Too Much Information?

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Jacqueline Kent

Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based writer of biography and other non-fiction. Her memoir Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook (UQP, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her most recent book is Vida: A woman for our time (Penguin, 2020).

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