Book Title: Unreel: A Life in Review
Author: Diana Wichtel
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ
ISBN: 9781776950614
Blurb:
The brilliantly funny, achingly nostalgic memoir of a life spent watching and writing, from the award-winning reviewer and bestselling author of Driving to Treblinka. Born to a Polish Holocaust survivor father and a 1950s Kiwi tradwife too busy to police her viewing, Diana Wichtel cut her teeth on the Golden Age of television. But in the 1960s, things fell apart. Diana’s fractured family left Canada and blew in to New Zealand, just missing the Beatles, and minus a father. Diana watched television being born again half a world away, and twenty years later walked into the smoky, clacking offices of the Listener where she became the country’s foremost television critic — loved and loathed, with the hate mail in seething capital letters to prove it. Meanwhile, television’s sometimes-pale imitation — her real life — was beginning to unreel. This is a sharply funny, wise and profound memoir of growing up and becoming a writer, of parents and children, early marriage and divorce, finding love again . . . and of the box we gathered around in our living rooms that changed the world.
RRP: $40.00
Format: Trade paperback
Size: 235mm x 136mm
Audience age range: Adult
Publication Date: 26 November 2024
Distributor in New Zealand: Penguin Random House NZ
Publicity:
- RNZ Saturday morning – interview
- NZ Listener – interview feature
- Sunday Star Times q+a
- NZ Herald review
- Spinoff extract & interview
- NZME regional newspapers review
- Stuff regional newspapers review
- Launch event Auckland