My Own Life: An Autobiography

Hazel Hawke's story spans decades of enormous change in the way Australian families live - and live together.  

The days of childhood she remembers so vividly - the loving family home with its abundant garden, singsongs round the piano, neighbourhood kids, bush holidays, the duty to be good and kind and honest - will touch chords of recognition in many Australians.  

Hazel Masterson's love affair with Bob Hawke - they were two passionate, idealistic eighteen-year-olds - began in the puritanical fifties. It survived her sense of isolations, caring for young children in a strange city, and his all-consuming engagement with the labour movement and the gregarious world of politics.