‘Booze and narcotics are all well and good, but if you really want to get out of your head, write a book,’ says Barnes, while Jane Harper wins Gold ABIA
He may have looked every bit the tough seasoned rock star, but Jimmy Barnes’ voice caught with tears as he thanked his wife Jane at the Australian Book Industry Awards on Thursday night, where the Cold Chisel frontman won biography book of the year.
Published in 2016, Barnes’ bestselling memoir Working Class Boy detailed a harrowing early life that was riddled with poverty, domestic abuse and alcoholic parents, who moved their family from Glasgow to Adelaide when he was a child.
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