In a startling new memoir, the bestselling author’s son Adam details how his father embellished his own story and showed a flagrant disregard for the truth.
Adam Courtenay says that as a child, he loved his father’s stories. “But when you’re older, you can’t wear that any more. You want to be told what happened, and know it was real.” Louise Kennerley
Multimillion-selling author Bryce Courtenay’s life was as colourful as the twists and turns in any of his blockbuster novels.
And there’s a reason for that. The late icon of the Australian publishing industry embellished his own story, according to his son Adam’s startling new memoir about his father, with similarly bold strokes of imagination, audacity and a flagrant disregard for the truth.
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