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y separately published work icon Run For Your Life : A Memoir single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Run For Your Life : A Memoir
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'Unwillingly given up by her birth mother and adopted into a violent household, Jill Jolliffe found the course of her life set before she even had time to choose.

'She ran away as a teenager and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment’s side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file. Following her instincts, she became a foreign correspondent – risking her life to report on Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor, exposing sex-trafficking rackets in Portugal and ducking bullets while covering a war in Angola.

'Over time she realises that the recurring pattern of her career has been reporting the stories of young women in distress, as though trying to free her younger self from the chains of being a ‘Forgotten Australian’. In the course of writing her memoir, an unexpected meeting with her birth mother takes her life full circle.' (Publication summary)

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    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Affirm Press , 2014 .
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      Extent: 321p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2014
      ISBN: 9781922213273

Works about this Work

Jill Jolliffe : Run for Your Life : A Memoir Kylie Mason , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2014;

— Review of Run For Your Life : A Memoir Jill Jolliffe , 2014 single work autobiography
Jill Jolliffe : Run for Your Life : A Memoir Kylie Mason , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2014;

— Review of Run For Your Life : A Memoir Jill Jolliffe , 2014 single work autobiography
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