It's Not You, Geography, it's Me

By: Kristy Chambers

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Paperback | 24 September 2014 | Edition Number 1

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A hilarious and brutally honest memoir about depression (and awkward massages)

A hilarious and brutally honest memoir about depression (and awkward massages)
For someone who hates exercise, Kristy Chambers is pretty good at running away. Believing that happiness can be found in other geographical locations, she stalks puffins in Reykjavik, rebuffs mariachi singers in Mexico City, and tries Weasel coffee (don't ask) in Hanoi. With a family history of mental illness that goes back generations and a complicated, long-term relationship with depression, she's not so much an international jetsetter as a loose cannon with a passport.
Joined by the most unreliable travel companion of them all - her mental health - Kristy goes in search of greener grass and finds that if she could only cut her head off, she would probably enjoy travel, and life, 100 per cent of the time (or 95 per cent if you include diarrhoea). Comedy ensues.
Praise for Get Well Soon
'One of the most distressingly funny books I have ever read.' Benjamin law, author of The Family Law and Gaysia
If David Sedaris had been an Australian nurse he probably would have written this.' Catherine Deveny, author of The Happiness Show
'Chambers is a natural comic, and while the humour is often dark or in-your-face, there are moments of poignancy.' Sydney Morning Herald

Industry Reviews

"For a book packed with medical illness and horror, "Get Well Soon! "is a life-affirmingly funny book. Repulsive and pungent, but always humane, this is without a doubt one of the most distressingly funny books I have ever read." --Benjamin Law, author, "The Family Law" and "Gaysia," on "Get Well Soon!"
"If David Sedaris had been an Australian nurse he probably would have written this." --Catherine Deveny, author, "The Happiness Show," on "Get Well Soon!"
"An unsettling account of nursing that is devoid of dramatization, characterized by cynicism, and delivered in the darkly comic style of Judith Lucy." --"Bookseller + Publisher "on" Get Well Soon!"

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