By Sheridan VoyseyMonday 23 Aug 2010FaithReading Time: 1 minute
If there’s a word that sums up the life of Lily Bragge, ‘colourful’ could be it.
The memoir of this Melbourne-born arts writer, titled My Dirty Shiny Life, has it all. Colourful characters, a colourful career, certainly colourful language.
There’s a lot of darkness too. Years of rebellion, drug abuse, lying and cheating, mental illness, sexual perversion, and suicide attempts.
But Lily’s dark story turns a sharp corner when, against all the odds, she meets Jesus. On that sunny Melbourne day eight years ago, quote, “the sky looked bluer, and the trees were greener than ever before”.
Listen Now – Lily Bragge chats about her memoir
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