Impossible
My Story
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A startling and important memoir about family and forgiveness, love and redemption
For the first time, Stan Walker speaks with startling honesty about abuse and addiction, hardship and excess, cancer and discrimination, and growing up in a family where love and violence were horribly entwined.
From one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation, Impossible is a story of redemption and the power of forgiveness. It's also a story about courage and hope; about a young Maori boy finding his place and purpose, never forgetting who he is and where he came from.
PRAISE FOR IMPOSSIBLE:
As a chronicle of Walker's life, it is gripping, but where the book achieves greatness - and I mean real, true greatness - is as a totem to humanity's capacity for kindness. It's an insight into the soul of a man whose capacity for forgiveness seems boundless.
- Sam Brooks
'This is a can't-put-down read, direct and proud and inspirational, an honest document of life in New Zealand on the wrong side of the tracks...'
- Steve Braunias
'A remarkable, improbable tale of a young Maori man (Tuhoe and Ngati Tuwharetoa) rising to greatness and finding his purpose after surviving horrific childhood abuse and countless other tragic situations.'
- Sebastian van der Zwan
'Stan Walker astonished me with his masterfully structured memoir of abuse and forgiveness.'
- Catherine Woulfe
Customer Reviews
Completed in a day
Couldn’t put it down. Heartbreaking, gut wrenching and beautiful - all in equal measure.
After reading, I couldn’t resist rewatching Stan’s Australian Idol clips, every music video. Then bought tickets to his next concert in Auckland. Every Māori, every New Zealander should read this.
Amazing
Man that was everything I needed and more
Thank you Stan
Incredibly raw and honest. Will change lives
An incredibly raw and honest book. I have never read anything so laid bare in truth. This book is a gift and will help people heal.