Jimmy Barnes says Rosie Batty inspired ugly truths in his new memoir Working Class Boy

By Rob Moran
Updated October 2 2016 - 1:08pm, first published September 19 2016 - 4:07pm
Jimmy and brother Alan with their mum on the front porch of their home in Elizabeth. 'That is the door Mum used when she left us.' Photo: Barnes Family Collection
Jimmy and brother Alan with their mum on the front porch of their home in Elizabeth. 'That is the door Mum used when she left us.' Photo: Barnes Family Collection
Jimmy Barnes hopes to break the cycle of shame and fear of his childhood with new book. Photo: Stephanie Barnes
Jimmy Barnes hopes to break the cycle of shame and fear of his childhood with new book. Photo: Stephanie Barnes

"He doesn't look a day older than he did when I saw him play Wollongong in '93," a roving courier tells a shop assistant, nodding towards Jimmy Barnes, who was seated, fittingly enough, between the Australian Fiction and True Crime aisles, as he launched his new memoir Working Class Boy in a Sydney Dymocks today.

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