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Still Life With Teapot

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Still Life With Teapot by Brigid Lowry is a collection of insightful and candid musings that blend memoir with observations on life, writing, and the art of slowing down. The book offers a tapestry of thoughtful reflections on creativity, personal growth, and finding joy in everyday moments, all infused with warmth and gentle humour.
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The good thing about being my age is that if you haven't grown up already, you don't have to.

What do you do when you start talking to yourself on the bus? If you're the writer Brigid Lowry, you change tack and write a book about what it means to be an ageing woman in the 21st century.

In Still Life with Teapot, Lowry offers advice, observations, hope, and reality checks in equal measure. She drops us straight into the writer's world β€” into the nuts and bolts of writing practice and into the art of life and ways to write about it.

Still Life with Teapot is an essential brew for people who love to make lists, for people who love to write, and for people who love to read about writing.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925163544

Publisher: Fremantle Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2016

Country: Australia

Imprint: Fremantle Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 205.0mm

Weight: 195g

Pages: 184

About the Author

Brigid Lowry began her writing career by self-publishing two dreadful poems when she was eight. She spent her twenties living in a Buddhist community, veered into performance poetry in her thirties, and subsequently gained a Masters Degree in Creative Writing and wrote eight award-winning Young Adult books. She is a Zen student, a socialist, a creative writing teacher, an introvert who talks too fast, a drifter and a dreamer who loves the world of words. She believes in nectarines, coloured pencils, and op shops, and in encouraging other to live with authenticity and joy.

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