Scrapbooks and Broken Strings

Scrapbooks and Broken Strings recounts Jude Murphy’s formative years set firmly in the Australian 80s. After a shocking tragedy pierces her childhood Jude struggles to manage her grief endure the challenges of young adulthood navigate a series of tumultuous relationships and traverse the terrain of motherhood and post-natal depression. In this courageously candid and often darkly humorous memoir Jude shares her battle with drugs alcohol illness and madness. Well paced and written in a conversational tone Scrapbooks and Broken Strings will take you through a range of emotional highs and lows before concluding with a sense of hope.