{"product_id":"9781923099012-anything-can-happen","title":"Anything Can Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Non-Fiction**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnything Can Happen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a memoir from one of Australia's literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. It keeps in play so many things: irony and spirituality, a slice of social history of Sydney's inner west, a farm in Victoria, a lesbian subculture, Mardi Gras, the literary pleasures of teaching writing. Juxtaposition is her gift, as is the very natural speaking voice. With the eye of a poet, and the dry drollery of someone who has experienced it all, straight and married, gay and married, mother, friend, lover, writer, this is a raw and powerful account of a life lived fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I love this memoir - it's the sort of writing Hampton excels at. There's no-one else I know who can hit that dry, droll, edgy note and conjure place and time and character and the random nature of memory and story-telling.' Kim Mahood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Alive and compelling, and served up in perfect mouthfuls, like an antipasto plate . . . Honesty, great sentences, good flow. Surprises, escalation, energy, digression and return, causation.' Gail Bell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Puncher \u0026 Wattmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43742932369544,"sku":"9781923099012","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/anything-can-happen-9781923099012-400012.jpg?v=1748514650","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781923099012-anything-can-happen","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}