Bibliograph

Life force, an unforgettable story of family, friendship, food and cancer, Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre ; foreword by Amanda Keller

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Life force, an unforgettable story of family, friendship, food and cancer, Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre ; foreword by Amanda Keller

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

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no index present

Intended audience

General

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life force

Responsibility statement

Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre ; foreword by Amanda Keller

Sub title

an unforgettable story of family, friendship, food and cancer

Summary

Barry du Bois shares an incredible story that is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measures. Faced with the recurrence of his incurable cancer Channel 10's The Living Room's building and design expert Barry Du Bois leaves nothing to chance as he embraces a do-or-die treatment to extend his time with his precious young children and wife Leonie. With the team at Dr Chris O'Brien's Life House and his best mates TV chef Miguel Maestre, Amanda Keller and Chris Brown in his corner, Barry shares an incredible story that is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measures. Raised in a fibro house beside a six-lane highway in Sydney's west, Barry retired from his successful building business in his early forties to deal with crippling depression but got a second wind as a television presenter talking about his favourite subjects, building and design, and becoming a later-life father to twins after a long quest via IVF and surrogacy. Now, during what Barry describes as his 'last episode', he contemplates a gifted life and the lessons learned

Table Of Contents

Part one: -- 1. Spinning plates -- 2. A little house on the highway -- 3. A lesson in honesty -- 4. Dollar Wally's -- 5. The invention that (almost) changed the world -- 6. Learning to fly -- 7. Depression -- 8. Drifting with Fraser -- 9. The Hordon Pavilion Boat Show 1968-75 -- 10. A double miracle -- 11. My first cancer -- 12. A man's gotta sing -- 13. My second cancer -- 14. Spinning blood -- 15. The night before Christmas -- 16. The effect of mindful meditation -- 17. The big hit --18. Humanity -- Part two:, Nourish your body and sould, by Miguel Mastre, Holistic approach, by Dr Judith Lacey, Simplest joys, by Merron Findlay, Cooking for Baz -- Acknowledgements

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