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Bite your tongue by Francesca Rendle-Short

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February 2012, no. 338

Bite your tongue by Francesca Rendle-Short

Spinifex Press, $27.95 pb, 246 pp, 9781876756963

Bite your tongue by Francesca Rendle-Short

by
February 2012, no. 338

In writing Bite Your Tongue, Francesca Rendle-Short, who is director of Creative Writing at RMIT University, has chosen a thorny tale. She dedicates the book to her mother, Angel, who is clearly a formidable personality: Northern Irish; medical doctor; mother of six daughters; Christian activist; ‘book burner’. Early on, we are told that ‘some stories are hard to tell, they bite back. To write this one I’ve had to come at it obliquely, give myself over to the writing with my face half turned; give my story to someone else to tell.’

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