Your Time Starts Now. Food And Fame, Failure And Freedom. The Life Story Of Australia's First MasterChef

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: EBURY
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 368 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her career began in youth work, including in a juvenile detention centre housing troubled boys and a toxic all-male staff. After her three sons were born, she and her husband started an IT business.Then came MasterChef a record-breaking juggernaut of a show. The attention and opportunities that flowed from Julies win were thrilling and overwhelming. She became a columnist for Australian Womens Weekly, a presenter on Today, published numerous cookbooks and made appearances on many shows including facing off with snakes and alligators on Im A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! For years she co-hosted an award-winning breakfast radio show, and she opened a thriving cooking school.It was by all appearances, a successful, rewarding life. But under the surface relentless pressure from Julies outer and inner worlds was taking its toll. Struggling with depression, anxiety and addiction, with bushfires blazing and lockdowns looming, Julie found herself hospitalised in a mental health unit.Her recovery, bumpy and circuitous, is an ongoing process that Julie tackles with tenacity. In this gloriously candid, deeply moving memoir, filled with beautiful food, astonishing people, humour and heart, Julie writes with brutal honesty about her struggles. We are brought into her story, into her unravelling and quest for healing as she seeks to resume a richly lived life.

ISBN: 9781761341151