One of the most difficult things about being bullied is the feeling that nobody else knows what it's like. Twenty-two of Australia's most talented and successful people know exactly what it's like. In candid and entertaining interviews, leading lights from across Australian life recount how they were bullied and shunned at school just for being different. Not only did they survive the ordeal but their experiences helped shape them into the remarkable individuals they are today.

Despite being one of Australia's best loved and most successful television personalities, life has not always been easy for Magda Szubanski.

"I've gone back and kind of meticulously worked through all of the demons that I've inherited and I have looked at some pretty dark corners of my psyche and of my family's psyche, and I feel now that I'm standing on the most solid, happiest ground I think I've ever been on in my whole life," Szubanski said.

Angelou’s poetic memoir about the poverty, racism, and violence she endured as a child growing up in the South, and how she overcame the trauma, going on to become one of the most famous, beloved authors in America.

This is the story of Walls and her family growing up, a charismatic, alcoholic father and a carefree mother who didn’t want the burdens that came along with childcare and domesticity, and how that affected the way Walls and her siblings were raised. The children learned to protect each other while they were always moving from town to town, trying to outrun bill collectors and landlords, as if it were all a game. (FYI: This spent SEVEN years on the NYT bestseller list.)