Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie

A podcast by LiSTNR

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Kids & Family Society & Culture

22 Episodes

  1. Chapter 22: you will become an anti-cool girl

    Published: 2/27/2018

  2. Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult

    Published: 2/19/2018

  3. Chapter 20: someone will play Jenga with your face and their penis, and you will consider it a sexual revolution

    Published: 2/6/2018

  4. Chapter 19: you will gain ninety kilos, and it will be the best thing that has ever happened to you

    Published: 1/30/2018

  5. Chapter 18: you will watch your mum attempt suicide, and realise that she's the only one who understands you

    Published: 1/23/2018

  6. Chapter 17: you will end up in a mental institution

    Published: 1/16/2018

  7. Chapter 16: your second set of parents will abandon you. damn.

    Published: 1/11/2018

  8. Chapter 15: you will go to a very crappy drama school and do a very crappy naked scene

    Published: 12/19/2017

  9. Chapter 14: you will lose your virginity, followed by your mind

    Published: 12/12/2017

  10. Chapter 13: you will try to fit in at a very exclusive private boarding school - and fail spectacularly

    Published: 12/5/2017

  11. Chapter 12: your mum will decide she is a lesbian, and she'll pick her new lover over you

    Published: 11/28/2017

  12. Chapter 11: you will get your first period, and it won't be the only blood you have to deal with that year

    Published: 10/31/2017

  13. Chapter 10: your foster dad will stick his hands down your pants, and you will feel so, so lucky

    Published: 10/24/2017

  14. Chapter 9: your mum will chase you with a butcher's knife

    Published: 10/10/2017

  15. Chapter 8: your dad will finally die, and you'll be relieved

    Published: 10/3/2017

  16. Chapter 7: you will get caught masturbating while watching Rugrats

    Published: 9/26/2017

  17. Chapter 6: you will be in rehab several times before you're ten years old

    Published: 9/19/2017

  18. Chapter 5: Jesus will propose to your sister, and not you. dick.

    Published: 9/12/2017

  19. Chapter 4: your friends will find a dead body in the bush, and it will be your dad

    Published: 9/6/2017

  20. Chapter 3: you will be a houso kid

    Published: 8/30/2017

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In 2015, Rosie Waterland published her first book, a memoir called "The Anti-Cool Girl". The book is about her childhood, her growing up, and her becoming an adult; all with mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicted parents, child protection, foster care, caravans and couches. There were crazy and very difficult times but also some funny times too. Rosie is 30 now, her mum Lisa is now 53. Since the book came out, the one question Rosie is always asked is more than any other is, "Has your Mum read the book?" Lisa hadn't read it for a while, because her drinking was so bad that she physically or emotionally couldn't. But in 2016, Lisa got sober. She has maintained that sobriety for the longest period Rosie has ever seen and.. she has finally read the book. She has many thoughts. The first of which is that most of Rosie's memoir is a lie.   Now is their time to talk all about it. In each episode Rosie reads a chapter from the book, and then Rosie and Lisa talk through it - is it all true or false? What really happened? Each chapter becomes a real conversation about the past, present and future for Rosie and Lisa.