Janetta Haskell

"I first met Janetta Haskell when I partnered her in Britten's THE TURN OF THE SCREW. She was an assured performer, an excellent musician and remains a good friend. Her full and interesting life makes a great read." Robert Gard OBE.

"This story belongs to Australia as much as to Europe and Africa, to the domestic and personal as well as the great world of music and opera. Exceptional in its range of interest and experience, it documents an extraordinary life." - Vivian Smith

"In `A VOICE OF MY OWN` Janetta Haskell tells the story of a remarkable life with verve, wit and candour. Her journey from the suburbs of Pretoria to the suffocating world of an isolated farm and its unbending patriarch may have been typical of many young women in the Apartheid South Africa of the day. But, despite her youth and relative lack of experience, she managed to free herself from the constrictions of that world, travelling to Italy to study with the renowned soprano Toti Dal Monte in anticipation of a career on the operatic and concert stage. These sections of her memoir give the reader privileged access to a world few of us may witness at first hand. Yet Janetta`s life was to take a very different turn. The latter part of her book, describing her life with her husband John in Europe, London and later in Australia reveal the strength of her personality, her capacity to adapt and, above all, her sense of duty --towards her family and towards those, particularly her adopted Vietnamese daughter Thu-Lan, whose lives have been marked by suffering and brutality. I found `A VOICE OF MY OWN` compelling, touching and absorbing, as have, I am sure, Janetta Haskell`s other readers." Andrew Riemer, Chief Book Reviewer, Sydney Morning Herald.

Books by Janetta Haskell

Voice of My Own An autobiography. "This story belongs to Australia as much as to Europe and Africa, to the domestic and personal as well as to the great world of music and opera. Exceptional in its range of interest and experience, it documents an extraordinary life." -

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