Lessons in Letting Go

Lessons in Letting Go

A funny and big-hearted memoir of how one of Australia's leading comic talents, Corinne Grant, learned to reconcile love, loss, lack of cupboard space and far too much stuff...

It took a year to drag myself out of the mess. A year in which I lost my dearest friend and then promptly lost my way. A year in which I ran away overseas, came back and then ran away again. A year in which I learnt to let go, learnt to forgive and learnt to grow up. It was a big year. It was a lot of work. And I head-butted two people. Accidentally.

Lessons in Letting Go is an honest, uproariously funny and sometimes moving memoir of the year in which Corinne Grant decides to do something about her hoarding. From every scrunchie she's ever owned, to every pencil case and magazine, it's time for it all to go. Problem is, getting rid of the stuff turns out to be much harder than she initially thought. This delightful memoir is about hoarding and about how the things we hold on to can end up dictating our lives. Warm, funny, candid and insightful, Lessons in Letting Go is about the pain-but also the necessity and the joy-in learning to let go.

Corinne Grant got her TV kick-start as a regular Good News Week panellist back in 1999 and in no time became one of the most familiar faces on Australian television. Her first full-time TV gig was as an original cast member of Rove, first on the 9 Network and then moving with Rove Live to the Ten Network in 2000. In 2001 she took on a second job as a founding member of ABC TV's The Glasshouse continuing with the show until it wrapped in 2006. Corinne is an accomplished stand-up comic, actor, presenter, writer and broadcaster and has performed both nationally and internationally. In addition to her years on Rove Live and The Glasshouse she has appeared on everything from Spicks and Specks to Dancing With the Stars and Good News Week. Her natural, down-to-earth charm and quick wit - qualities that shine through in her first book, Lessons in Letting Go - have made her one of Australia's best known and most warmly regarded performers.

Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of a hoarder
Allen and Unwin
Author: Corinne Grant
Price: $29.99