Storytelling is a memoir looking at the itinerant childhood of a girl born to a Showie and a boxer. This whimsical piece charts the writer’s move from infancy in the backyard of a ‘fence’ in Melbourne, through her early childhood in WA, moving from a roadhouse on the Nullarbor to a Catholic boarding school in a ghost town. Moving to NSW in high school, the writer charts the rise and fall of her parents’ many business ventures and later, her time in a malevolent house where her childhood begins to unravel.
I suppose I thought that staying with my childhood in my memoir I wouldn't fall into the trap that my husband's friend, Gerard Windsor, fell into. I didn't want a sister not talking to me from that ........
I thought I might explain how difficult it is to come up with a title for a book. I suppose I was really affected by Henry James look at book covers and the thought that he put into coming up with t ........
When thinking about what influenced me to write Storytelling there are a number of books that I have read. I loved Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. I loved the sense of humour and the fact that w ........
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