JIMMY AND GRET DON'T DO SEX: An unconventional love story (53% true)
By Gretel
Killeen
A fun, fib-filled modern-day love story
follow up to Gretel's bestselling autobiography 'The Night My Bum Dropped'
'There's
something that I have to confess. I wrote another book a while ago. I thought
I'd discovered the path to happiness and the meaning of existence…it turns
out that I hadn't.'
When a clairvoyant tells Gret she
has only days to live, she's forced to look critically at her life, legacy and
loves. High on her list is the man with whom she's shared her most profound relationship,
gad-about and liar, Jimmy. Theirs is a warts and all friendship - perhaps far
more honest than any marriage, and Gretel takes us into the heart of this 'single
girl's unconventional love' with hilarity, wisdom, warmth and honesty.
A
contemporary odd couple, Gret is a rule-observing try-hard while Jimmy 'doesn't
have the gene for social logic or cultural conformity or for parking the car somewhere
legally.' Amidst the laugh-out-loud antics of their dealings with each other's
lives and perhaps imminent deaths, Gretel offers insightful and thought-provoking
observations about our world , the place of men, women, mums, singledom and pals,
and the myriad forms of precious modern relationships.
Gretel
Killeen is a bestselling author for all age groups, with her work published both
in Australia and overseas. Her career in writing started after she dropped out
of university law and performed at a poetry night. Gretel became a stand-up comic
and voice artist for advertising and film and, for seven years, was the host of
Big Brother. While a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Gretel wrote and directed
a documentary on AIDS orphans in Zambia, and TV commercials on unexploded ordnance
in Laos. She has performed for the troops in the Middle- East, Solomon Islands
and E. Timor. Her greatest achievement has been as a single mother of her two
children.
'Jimmy & Gret Don't Do Sex' is available
now.
