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Magda Szubanski's Reckoning: A Memoir

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageMagda Szubanski in one of her most famous roles - Sharon Strzelecki - in Kath and Kim, with actors Gina Riley, Peter Rowsthorn, Glenn Robbins and Jane Turner.Paul Jeffers/AAP

If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.

So reads the back cover of Magda Szubanski’s engaging debut memoir, Reckonin...

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