Butterfly on a Pin : A memoir of love, despair and reinvention

Butterfly on a Pin : A memoir of love, despair and reinvention
ISBN: 9781743794265
Publication Date: 1 November 2018

**·This limited edition of Alannah Hill's brilliant memoir comes beautifully packaged in a specially designed box. It captures Alannah's deep creative sensibility and love of all things romantic and feminine.

·Deluxe hardback edition, with a new text setting and a three sixteen-page photo sections full of new photographs (with detailed captions) from Alannah's personal collection and fashion campaigns**

.'Raw and real and funny and sad – I could not put this book down' – Jane Kennedy

'You might expect fluff and fashion ... what you get is harrowing, full-strength, funny and deeply satisfying – Zoë Foster Blake

Unflinching, funny, shocking, inspiring and tender: this is a story like no other.

Alannah Hill, one of Australia’s most successful fashion designers, created an international fashion brand that defied trends with ornamental, sophisticated elegance, beads, bows and vintage florals. But growing up in a milk bar in Tasmania, Alannah’s childhood was one of hardship, fear and abuse. At an early age she ran away from home with eight suitcases of costumes and a fierce determination to succeed, haunted by her mother’s refrain of ‘You’ll never amount to anything, you can’t sew, nobody likes you and you’re going to end up in a shallow grave, dear!’

At the height of her success, Alannah walked the razor’s edge between two identities – the ‘good’ Alannah and the ‘mongrel bastard’ Alannah. Who was the real Alannah Hill? Reprieve came in the form of a baby boy and the realisation that becoming a mother not only changes your life, but completely refurbishes it, for...