Jacinta Dietrich Jacinta Dietrich i(23680518 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Mumma Bird Jacinta Dietrich , 2022 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Growing Up in Country Australia 2022;
1 y separately published work icon This Is Us Now : Love in the Time of Cancer Jacinta Dietrich , Parkville : Grattan Street Press , 2021 23680544 2021 single work novel

'‘He used to smell like laundry detergent. Even with cologne, you could smell him underneath. Always the same smell. I would nuzzle my face into his chest and breathe it in. They didn’t tell me his smell would change.’

'Ella and Theo’s relationship is young and evolving and so are they. Their lives are going mostly to plan until a sudden cancer diagnosis changes everything. Nerves about meeting each other’s parents and living together turn to anxieties about survival. Easy becomes hard. Hard becomes impossible. Their lives cannot remain the same and now every moment is coloured by illness and the challenges that come with it.

'This Is Us Now is the story of two young people navigating a relationship in the most extraordinary circumstances. They’re faced with the hardest decision: when you feel like you are losing someone you love, do you hold on or do you let go forever?' (Publication summary)

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