Get up Mum / by Justin Heazlewood.
Publication details: South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press, 2018.Description: 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925584011 (paperback)
- 1925584011
- Get up Mum : of all the voices Mum hears I wish one of them could be mine
- 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 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 616.898 HEA | Available | 068052 |
"Of all the voices Mum hears, I wish one of them could be mine" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287)
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.
