Memoir

Hello, Beautiful! Scenes From a Life by Hannie Rayson

by Carol Middleton •

April 2015, no. 370

Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 257 pp, 9781922182128

Memoir

Hello, Beautiful! Scenes From a Life by Hannie Rayson

by Carol Middleton •

April 2015, no. 370

Apart from a brief stint as an actor, Hannie Rayson has spent her professional life writing plays, fourteen of them. Now she has shone the spotlight on her own life and brought her sense of dramatic conflict, emotional range and laugh-out-loud humour to her memoir, Hello, Beautiful!

Carol Middleton

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Carol Middleton is a journalist, arts critic and author, based in Melbourne. Her short story awards include second place in The Age competition 2010. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the anthologies Melbourne Subjective, Ink3 and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is working on a memoir in essays.