Your Time Starts Now Your Time Starts Now

Your Time Starts Now

Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef

    • $16.99
    • $16.99

Publisher Description

Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her career began in youth work, including in a juvenile detention centre housing troubled boys and a toxic all-male staff. After her three sons were born, she and her husband started an IT business.

Then came MasterChef – a record-breaking juggernaut of a show. The attention and opportunities that flowed from Julie’s win were thrilling and overwhelming. She became a columnist for Australian Women’s Weekly, a presenter on Today, published numerous cookbooks and made appearances on many shows including facing off with snakes and alligators on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! For years she co-hosted an award-winning breakfast radio show, and she opened a thriving cooking school.

It was by all appearances, a successful, rewarding life. But under the surface relentless pressure from Julie’s outer and inner worlds was taking its toll. Struggling with depression, anxiety and addiction, with bushfires blazing and lockdowns looming, Julie found herself hospitalised in a mental health unit.

Her recovery, bumpy and circuitous, is an ongoing process that Julie tackles with tenacity. In this gloriously candid, deeply moving memoir, filled with beautiful food, astonishing people, humour and heart, Julie writes with brutal honesty about her struggles. We are brought into her story, into her unravelling and quest for healing as she seeks to resume a richly lived life.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2024
April 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Random House Australia
SELLER
Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
12
MB
Notes from a Young Black Chef Notes from a Young Black Chef
2019
My Lifey My Lifey
2021
California Soul California Soul
2022
How Did All This Happen? How Did All This Happen?
2013
Grandpa Stories Grandpa Stories
2012
Life, on the Line Life, on the Line
2011
Seven Family Favourite Recipes Seven Family Favourite Recipes
2013
Gather Gather
2013
I'm Liz Hayes I'm Liz Hayes
2023
Lies My Mirror Told Me Lies My Mirror Told Me
2023
Running Strong Running Strong
2023
Behind The Voice Behind The Voice
2023
Lisa Lisa
2022
Out of the Box Out of the Box
2022