Pantera acquires Bassingthwaighte memoir

Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Love Like This by actor and singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte.

The publisher described Love Like This as an “unflinchingly honest and intimate memoir about love, loss and the courage it takes to embrace your whole story – even the parts you once wanted to hide”. “After love, heartbreak, career highs and lows, motherhood, loss and self-discovery, Nat has learnt that true strength doesn’t come from holding it all together but instead from allowing yourself to be vulnerable.”

On the memoir, Bassingthwaighte said, “This is the story of me, vulnerable and raw, from the depths of my heart. The unravelling of my life lived so far, the unveiling of my truest, most authentic self and how I finally arrived in my skin. Ultimately, this is a story of love, forgiveness, acceptance, exhilaration and my ongoing search for inner peace.”

Pantera said the memoir is “ultimately a story of resilience, reinvention and what it truly means to measure a life; not by mistakes or rejections, but with love, courage and connection.”

Also known as Nat Bass, Bassingthwaighte has worked as a television actor in the role of Izzy Hoyland on Neighbours, a theatre performer as Roxie Hart (of Chicago) and Shirley Valentine (in the play of the same name), and lead singer of the Rogue Traders. The publisher said, “Behind the curtain, Nat’s life tells another story: from a teenage pregnancy, [and] 2 marriages and divorces to the challenges of co-parenting, grief and loss, and, ultimately, finding love again in an unexpected place.”

Publisher Tom Langshaw said, “This book will be Australia’s answer to Untamed [Glennon Doyle, Vermilion]: a no-holds-barred memoir of self-discovery and reinvention.”

Pantera plans to publish Love Like This in April 2026.

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