NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show
Nanette . In this “enthralling” ( The Washington Post ) memoir they take us through the
defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the
cost. Don’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s new stand-up show Woof! on tour now! “Hannah is a
Promethean force a revolutionary talent. This hilarious touching and sometimes tragic book
is all about where their fires were lit.”—Emma Thompson A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: PopSugar
Vulture “There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself ” Hannah
Gadsby declared in their show Nanette a scorching critique of the way society conducts public
debates about marginalized communities. Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in
Tasmania where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. After moving to mainland Australia and
receiving a degree in art history they found themselves adrift working itinerant jobs and
enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. When Gadsby was
twenty-seven a friend encouraged them to enter a stand-up competition. They won and so began
their career in comedy. Gadsby became well known for their self-disparaging humor but in
2015 as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage they started to question this
mode of storytelling beginning to work on a show that would transform their career and would
become “the most-talked-about written-about shared-about comedy act in years” ( The New York
Times ). Harrowing and hilarious Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer
person their ever-evolving relationship with comedy and their struggle with late-in-life
diagnoses of autism and ADHD finally arriving at the backbone of Nanette: the renouncement of
self-deprecation the rejection of misogyny and the moral significance of truth-telling.
