Seana Smith Seana Smith i(28365883 works by)
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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1 y separately published work icon Going Under : A Memoir of Family Secrets, Addiction and Escape Seana Smith , Edgecliff : Ventura Press , 2024 28365907 2024 single work autobiography

'From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. 

'With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear.

'Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood. 

'It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.' (Publication summary) 

2 y separately published work icon Wildly Weird But Totally True Australia Seana Smith , Seana Smith (illustrator), Orange : HelloSydneyKids , 2022 29236877 2022 single work information book children's

'Your kids will love reading the weird and wonderful facts about Australia in this brand new book!

'Check out this hilarious Australian kids book, chock full of amazing facts, trivia and stories.

'Learn about Australia in this amusing and entertaining children’s book, which will appeal to the adults too.

'You will laugh and you will gasp, and then you will want to explore Australia and see its amazing animals and places for yourself.

'Can you answer these questions:

o What name was almost used for Vegemite?

o Who fought the Emu Wars?

o Is Australia an island?

o What shape is wombat poo?

o What is the unique secret of emu’s feathers?

o What is the big controversy over the pavlova?

o Why was a book written about the anzac biscuit?

o Is Cow Bay named after a dairy cow?

o Is Uluru the world’s largest rock?

o What’s unique about the dinosaur fossils at Lark Quarry?

o What did First Nations Australians use as a football?

'Australia is a huge country and it is a really unique and amazing place, and not just because of its sharks, crocodiles, spiders and snakes?'  (Publication summary)

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