Bite Your Tongue (Paperback)

Rendle-Short Francesca

ISBN 10: 1876756969 / ISBN 13: 9781876756963

Published by Spinifex Press, North Melbourne, 2011

About this Item

Paperback. In Francesca Rendle-Shorts family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mothers moral crusading should send this daughter straight to hell in a ball of smoke and flame along with all those books her mother wanted to burn. Some stories are hard to tell. But like reading, writing stories changes everything. Set in 1970s Queensland and also contemporary times, Bite Your Tongue is an elegant mix of novel and memoir that is in turn harrowing and delightful. It threads together the childhood story of the fictional Glory Solider, with the thoughts and experiences of the adult author, Francesca Rendle-Short, as she looks more deeply into her mothers activism at the time of facing her mothers death. Can a daughter forgive her mother for making her a pawn in her conservative moral crusades? Can greater understanding reinstate love? What does a mother owe a daughter and a daughter a mother? Can a daughter forgive her mother for making her a pawn in her conservative moral crusades? Can greater understanding reinstate love? What does a mother owe a daughter and a daughter a mother? This title answers such questions and describes the bond that exists between a daughter and her mother, no matter how difficult that mother might be. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bite Your Tongue (Paperback)
• Publisher: Spinifex Press, North Melbourne
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1876756969
• ISBN 13: 9781876756963
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Set in Queensland in the 1970s as well as contemporary times, this elegant mix of novel and memoir is in turn harrowing and delightful story. It threads together the childhood story of the fictional Glory Solider with the thoughts and experiences of the author, who examines her mother’s activism and copes with her death by asking Can a daughter forgive her mother for making her a pawn in her conservative moral crusades? Can greater understanding reinstate love? What does a mother owe a daughter and a daughter a mother? Ultimately a story of acceptance, this work encapsulates the deep bond that exists between a mother and her daughter.

About the Author

Francesca Rendle-Short is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and poetry. She is the author of the novel Imago and the novella Big Sister. She is also the program director of creative writing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.