Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood
Author: Moorhouse, Jocelyn
ISBN: 9781925773484
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 232mm x 152mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse.
Jocelyn Moorhouse has a successful career as a gifted scriptwriter and film director, as well as a maintaining a marriage and a family of four children. How did she do it? Her memoir is a moving story of growing up with adoring parents and siblings. She knew early on that she wanted to be a filmmaker, and her dreams were encouraged by her family and by her teachers. Meeting P.J. Hogan, becoming parents and filmmakers together was a turning point. But when they discovered that two of their children were autistic, Jocelyn's life turned upside down. In Unconditional Love, she talks from the heart, with humour and intelligence, about her fears for her children, the highs and lows in her international career, about Hollywood and home, and about her love for what she does best-filmmaking and motherhood.
ISBN: 9781925773484
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 232mm x 152mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse.
Jocelyn Moorhouse has a successful career as a gifted scriptwriter and film director, as well as a maintaining a marriage and a family of four children. How did she do it? Her memoir is a moving story of growing up with adoring parents and siblings. She knew early on that she wanted to be a filmmaker, and her dreams were encouraged by her family and by her teachers. Meeting P.J. Hogan, becoming parents and filmmakers together was a turning point. But when they discovered that two of their children were autistic, Jocelyn's life turned upside down. In Unconditional Love, she talks from the heart, with humour and intelligence, about her fears for her children, the highs and lows in her international career, about Hollywood and home, and about her love for what she does best-filmmaking and motherhood.
