HIGH SEASON

Kitchen Confidential meets Marching Powder in this enthralling memoir by Jim Hearn.

High Season is the story of a working-class boy made good – and bad. It’s Jim Hearn’s tale of growing up in rural Queensland, becoming an apprentice chef at age fifteen, drug use and general lowbrow kitchen scum behaviour, overcoming heroin addiction, finding love and becoming the head chef at one of Australia’s most acclaimed restaurants. It also recounts the day Jim, three young chefs and a waiter do what it takes to feed Paris Hilton and her sizeable entourage when they turn up for lunch without warning. The highs and lows of this particular day climax in an unexpected tragedy that will change Jim’s life forever. Raw, unapologetic and behind-the-scenes in an utterly fascinating way, High Season is a rite-of-passage story, a cautionary tale about heroin, and a celebration of hospitality. Jim Hearn is a scriptwriter and chef. He has written five original, feature-length screenplays. Jim has also been employed as a script assessor for the NSW FTO and has a BA (Hons) from Southern Cross University. High Season: A Memoir is his first book.