Kristy Chambers Kristy Chambers i(A148453 works by)
Born: Established: 1975 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon It’s Not You, Geography, It’s Me Kristy Chambers , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2014 7667724 2014 single work autobiography

'For someone who hates exercise, Kristy Chambers is pretty good at running away, and coming back again when her credit cards are declined. She’s not so much an international jetsetter as a loose cannon with a passport. So, in the manner of Eat, Pray, Love, a privileged white girl takes her privileged white ass on the road in an attempt to find happiness. With a family history of mental illness that goes back generations and a complicated long-term relationship with depression, will eating all the pasta in Italy help her to find the silver lining she’s looking for? Of course it won’t. It’s pasta, not magic beans.

'Joined by the most unreliable travel companion of them all – her mental health – Kristy goes in search of greener grass and finds that if she could only cut her head off, she would probably enjoy travel, and life, 100 per cent of the time (or 95 per cent if you include diarrhoea). Comedy ensues.' (Publication summary)

1 To the Stranger Who Hopefully Doesn't Know Who I Am : Kristy Chambers Kristy Chambers , 2013 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Yours Truly : Cathartic Confessions, Passionate Declarations and Vivid Recollections from Women of Letters 2013; (p. 150-153)
1 Untitled Kristy Chambers , 2012 extract autobiography (Get Well Soon! : My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse)
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 9 September 2012; (p. 12)
1 7 y separately published work icon Get Well Soon! : My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse Kristy Chambers , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2012 Z1877002 2012 single work autobiography

'Falling into the nursing profession, Kristy Chambers has spent almost a decade working as a nurse, with patients ranging from drug addicts through cancer patients to those in Emergency. Along the way she met some wonderfully brave people. As for others, well, you'll need to read her book to really believe it.

'Chambers is a new and idiosyncratic voice in memoir writing. Her tone is dark, her humour black, but there is honesty, heart and compassion in Get Well Soon! She shows us more than ever the incredible work done by nurses and the challenges they face.' (From the publisher's website)

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