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Bite Your Tongue
by
Francesca Rendle-Short (Goodreads Author)
Mrs Angel Rendle-Short said that a book given to her daughter, Francesca, as an English textbook at school would teach her to be a permissive rebel. —Courier Mail, 1975
Bite Your Tongue is a story of great heart. It is the story of a teenage girl’s growing up in Queensland during the 1970s, the daughter of a morals crusader: Angel Rendle-Short / Mother Joy Solider. The tal...more
Bite Your Tongue is a story of great heart. It is the story of a teenage girl’s growing up in Queensland during the 1970s, the daughter of a morals crusader: Angel Rendle-Short / Mother Joy Solider. The tal...more
Paperback, 246 pages
Published
October 6th 2011
by Spinifex Press
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Bite Your Tongue by Francesca Rendle-Short is a book I first saw in a different form some years earlier. What I enjoy about the published version is the crossover of genres – from fiction to memoir back to fiction. I like the way that Francesca both separates and melds. For many writers, fiction becomes a way to explore experiences and ideas from the real world blurring their origins. Francesca explores her relationship with her mother – and mother daughter relationships are complex – as well as...more
Abandoned half-way through. I just could not get into this book - though it was prettily written and the prose and structure were highly original, I found it self-indulgent, bordering on narcissistic. It never seemed to take me down into the true depths of the story and what it would have been like to be the child of such a mother. I felt as though I was skimming the surface of an intriguing/fascinating situation. It was like taking a trip across the Great Barrier Reef in a glass bottom boat ins...more
An honest piece of one's not so happy experience as a daughter of a woman who saw it her God-given mission to urge the authorities to ban books of immorality (such as DH Lawrence and To Kill a Mocking Bird). Unnecessary divide between what actually happened with the author's family and real occurrences witnessed by photos, and a mirroring of all that in a fictionalised family and occurrences.
Not sure about this book, I nearly didn't finish reading it, but the last third of the book had me. It is certainly well written though.
Brilliantly written with emotion and humour.
Apr 20, 2013
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