Libby Harkness Libby Harkness i(A152695 works by)
Born: Established:
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant : True Tales and Gossip from the Galley Owen Beddall , Libby Harkness , North Sydney : Random House , 2014 7480116 2014 selected work prose

'Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley! Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead - flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-star hotels, daytime lazing around the pool and night-time tabletop dancing with Bollywood stars. At last the lid is lifted. Come on board a real airline with a real flight attendant and find out what really goes on.

'In Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant - True Tales and Gossip from the Galley, Owen Beddall dishes the dirt - he tells you the things you always wanted to know (and maybe a few things you didn't) about the glamorous world of flying.

'This book is packed with cabin crew adventures and misadventures in and out of that smart uniform in far flung places. There's sex, drugs and lots of celebrity gossip; Katy Perry, Lily Allen, Kylie Minogue, Venus Williams and Cate Blanchett - are all in the galley having a gossip with Owen. Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant is a hilariously bumpy ride around the world with a very funny man. ' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Widow Libby Harkness , North Sydney : Random House , 2013 Z1923459 2013 single work biography 'The day Nola Duncan married the charismatic scientist, Dr Michael Westwood, in 1981, was the happiest day of her life. Michael, a senior academic at the Australian National University, was Nola's 'perfect man' - a good father; a wonderful host, cook and raconteur; a devoted husband and caring lover; a good friend and a committed Christian.

Throughout their thirty-year marriage, Michael, a deeply romantic man, wrote Nola copious love notes, letters and poems. So when he died suddenly of a cardiac arrest in 2010, Nola's grief was profound. The funeral service overflowed with people who loved and admired him; the eulogies were effusive.

Heartbroken, Nola picked her way through early widowhood and on the first anniversary of his death she buried his ashes in a plot with room for hers. Then she set about clearing out his things.

In a box marked 'research papers' Nola found something that would shatter her life; 741 love letters between Michael and his lover, evidence of his passionate six-year affair with one of his doctoral students, a young married woman from the Philippines, 23 years his junior.

Nola's emotional pain and distress as she read the letters, many of them erotic and sexually explicit, was compounded on discovering one of the most meaningful poems he'd written for her, he'd also given his lover. The lovers believed their affair was the 'Great Love' and their 'soul marriage' God-sanctioned; oh, the hypocrisy!

Until now, Nola has remained silent about Michael's betrayal of everything and everyone they knew. There are many unanswered questions in this story: Why did he keep the letters? Can a man love two women at once?But there's one she knows she will always be asked - how could she not have known? But hand on her heart, she didn't.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Everything to Live For Everything to Live For : The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt Turia Pitt , Libby Harkness , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2013 6385641 2013 single work autobiography

'In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would change her life forever. Trapped by a fire in a gorge in the remote Kimberly region, Turia and five other competitors had nowhere to run. Turia escaped with catastrophic burns to 65 per cent of her body.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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