Magda Szubanski

I Can't Tell You But I Will is the powerful and tender new memoir by Magda Szubanski, author of the bestselling, award-winning Reckoning. In this new book she writes with searing honesty about her complicated relationship with her mother, Margaret. As Magda stepped into the fight for same-sex marriage in Australia, she learned that her mother was dying, and was forced to confront two of the hardest struggles of her life at the same time. This unforgettable book describes the true cost of caring, the courage is takes to keep going, and the impossible pull between public duty and private grief. And it pays tribute to a powerful, complex woman who was both difficult and deeply loved. I Can't Tell You But I Will is for everyone who has loved or lost someone, or tried to hold themselves together when life demands everything at once.