Jillian Richards

An Aussie girl, I was transplanted to the USA for the second time.

"Jillian? Are you somebody?"

I was asked again and again

in that glamorous city of angels,

Los Angeles,

where I navigated my life

with a good dose of Aussie humour.

It was, I discovered,

important to 'be somebody'.

Astonishing moments

of joy

and of the ridiculous

are spilled into my books.

LOVE IN A PAPER BAG

and

LIFE IN A PAPER BAG

Moments and days of challenge and plain stupidity

are remembered

as I drive myself across the USA

following 9/11.

Now 'THE ITALIANS' have asserted themselves

into my next book:

ITALIANS IN MY PAPER BAG

to be released soon.