Misfit : the unravelling of Samantha X
Goff, Amanda2025
Audiobooks
The Unravelling of Samantha X. 'I wanted to go back to the real me, Amanda Goff. Yet there was just one problem. I had no idea who she was. I had no idea who I was. I hadn't been Amanda for years, decades. Samantha wasn't leaving just yet; she wasn't going to make a quiet exit. She wasn't that type of woman.' Amanda Goff was a successful journalist in London and Sydney before ditching her nine-to-five job at the age of 38 to become Samantha X, Australia's most famous escort. A bipolar diagnosis changed everything: she retired from sex work, walked away from Samantha X, and went in search of Amanda. Misfit is her third memoir - but the first written as 'herself'. Raw, honest, provocative, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is an unflinching record of her journey along the bumpy path to healing and self-acceptance. Beyond confronting her bipolar disorder and addiction issues, Amanda must also contend with prejudice and judgement, lingering trauma from her earlier life, and her own crushing self-doubt. As she struggles with the realities of so-called normality, the persistent voice of Samantha X is there to remind her of a former life that offered power, money, fame - and protection from the challenges that Amanda has courageously chosen to tackle head-on. 'Written with raw honesty, extraordinary courage and non-stop brio' PROFESSOR GORDON PARKER, founder, the Black Dog Institute.
Main title:
Misfit : the unravelling of Samantha X / Amanda Goff; read by Ric Herbert.
Author:
Goff, Amanda, authorHerbert, Ric, Reader
Imprint:
Leicester : Ulverscroft, Wavesound, 2025.
Collation:
6 sound discs (CD) (approximately 6.08 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Wavesound CD
Performers:
Cast: Herbert, Ric.
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
9781004200191
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
179026