Dilvin yasa biography of nancy

Because Dilvin Yasa had dated dodgy men and made fashion faux pas in her past, she realised this was the type of information she needed to arm her own daughter with when she steps into her teenage years.

Yasa says her own mother had given her advice when she was young, but admits a strong guiding hand would have better prepared her for adult life and saved her from a world of heartache in her 20s.

It's what pushed Sydney-based Yasa to write her book Things My Daughter Needs to Know: The Truth about Drugs, Drink, Sex, Tattoos, Babies, Strange Men and High Heels.

"It's hard for teenage girls. I hit 14 and my hormones went crazy. I hated my parents - and I came out the other side and I was OK," she says.

"But it's a hard time because you're too old to be a child but too young to be an adult - you're stuck in this weird place."

Yasa's book is a series of letters written to her daughter, Cella, who i