The Winter of Our Disconnect: How three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale.

‘Witty, wise, provocative and frank, THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONNECT is Maushart at her wry best – hilarious, of course, but also peppered with challenging insights.’ Hugh Mackay

When journalist and commentator Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. At ages 14, 15 and 18, her daughters and son didn’t use media. They inhabited media. Just exactly as fish inhabit a pond. Gracefully. Unblinkingly. And utterly without consciousness or curiosity as to how they got there. Susan’s experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

• Year of Publication: 2010
• Genre: Non-fiction
• Audience: Adult