TY  - BOOK
AU  - Else, Barbara,
TI  - Laughing at the dark: a memoir 
SN  - 9780143777618
U1  - Z920 ELSE 23
PY  - 2023///.
CY  - [Auckland] : P
PB  - Penguin Random House New Zealand, 
KW  - Else, Barbara,
KW  - Authors, New Zealand
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women authors, New Zealand
KW  - Housewives as authors
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "By the time she was in her forties, Barbara was married to a globally recognised academic physician and had two beautiful teenage daughters. As her writing career developed, her husband became angry at the prospect of her being anything but a housewife. In a moment of madness -- or realisation -- she packed her car and took off to live with the man who would become her second husband. With her trademark wit and humour, Barbara poignantly describes her transformation from a shy but stubborn child into a fulfilled and successful adult"--Publisher information
ER  -