Everything and Nothing

A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from celebrated stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell.

Heather Mitchell is an esteemed Australian stage and screen actor, and yet behind the scenes her real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinching spotlight on her most formative memories, Heather illuminates the heartbreaking secrets, sexual encounters, family dramas and creative pursuits that have shaped her life as a woman, an actor and a mother. Told with raw candour and spellbinding lyricism, Everything and Nothing draws back the curtain on a unique and fascinating life.


‘Reading Mitchell's memoir reminded me of how I felt when I first read Tuesdays With Morrie. A gentle collection of musings on an extraordinary life; unpretentious and honest, full of stoic wisdom.' Tim Minchin


‘This is exquisitely written, with such courage and candour. I was profoundly shaken, shocked, and I often wept. But best of all, I laughed—Heather is very, very funny. Superb.' Sam Neill


‘To read her memoir is to understand why Heather Mitchell is universally beloved across the world of Australian theatre, film and television. An extraordinary life told in tender detail, capturing triumph, love and tragedy with a beautiful humanity.' Annabel Crabb