Get up Mum
Get up Mum
of all the voices Mum hears I wish one of them could be mine
Heazlewood, Justin
creator
author.
text
biography
Autobiographies.
vra
South Melbourne, Victoria
Affirm Press
2018
monographic
eng
328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
It's 1992 in Burnie, Tasmania. Twelve-year-old Justin Heazlewood just wants to be a normal boy with a normal family. He's excited to finish primary school, listen to Rage with his friends over the holidays and play Yahtzee with Nan and Pop; but he lives alone with his mum and she is crying uncontrollably and won't get out of bed. With High School on the horizon, Justin feels the need to grow up fast. He must learn to navigate new friends, girls and spirituality, all the while trying to deal with his mum's schizophrenia. Told with a youthful exuberance, Get Up Mum is a wildly endearing, entertaining and incredibly powerful memoir about love, family, mental illness and growing up.
by Justin Heazlewood.
"Of all the voices Mum hears, I wish one of them could be mine" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287)
Heazlewood, Justin
Heazlewood, Justin
Family
Heazlewood, Justin
1980-
Childhood and youth
Heazlewood, Justin
1980-
Family
Heazlewood, Justin
1980-
Schizophrenics
Family relationships
Tasmania
Mothers and sons
Tasmania
Biography
Schizophrenia
Family relationships
Mental illness
Families of the mentally ill
Tasmania
Biography
Children of mentally ill mothers
Tasmania
Biography
Parent and child
Tasmania
Schizophrenics
Family relationships
Tasmania
Mothers and sons
Tasmania
Biography
Autobiographies
Biography
Biography
True Stories
Memoirs
616.898/0092
9781925584011 (paperback)
1925584011
VHEI
180529
20180703172751.0
000062320191
eng