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What Next, You Bastard

By Ken Hall and Monica McFerran

My childhood was very short. It ended soon after my twelfth birthday in early 1952.

Thus begins a most extraordinary biography. Ken Hall spent much of his early life in hospital. Consequently, he never learned to read or write. The doctors insisted he was going to die, but he survived. As he grew older he struggled to lead a normal life in a society which equates illiteracy with idiocy.

Ken Hall is the quintessence of the ordinary Australian bloke, but there is nothing ordinary about his courage, strength and determination. This is a rollicking yarn full of larrikin gusto, occasionally angry, mostly very funny, and without a trace of self-pity.

This book and its sequel, What Next You Bastard Book Two, are available in both printed and audio form.

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