Things She Would Have Said Herself by Catherine Therese - ISBN: 9780733648892
Paperback
Secrets, slights, and a bonkers family boil over one fateful Christmas.

Things She Would Have Said Herself

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    29 March 2023

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Summary

Meet Leslie Bird, the irascible matriarch of a big, bonkers family, coming of age and to the boil, as the secrets and slights that have shaped her and her hapless husband’s lives impact their children in the most profound and complex ways. In other words, everyone’s story. Sort of. Because this is a story, and family, like none you’ve ever read before.

Things She Would Have Said Herself is a darkly funny, deeply moving novel about the lengths and breadths one woman will go to…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780733648892
ISBN-10:0733648894
Author:Catherine Therese
Publisher:Hachette Australia
Imprint:Hachette Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:29 March 2023
Weight:300g
Dimensions:233mm x 154mm x 33mm
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Critics Review

‘Completely original and bursting with love in all its messy, complicated forms. I loved this book.’ FAVEL PARRETT

‘Never have ordinary suburban lives felt so rambunctious, exhilarating or hilarious.’ CATE KENNEDY

About The Author

Catherine Therese

Catherine Therese is an award-winning writer, designer and educator whose lifelong passion for articulating the interior lives of people and places has inspired a diverse career in Europe and Australia, where she has lived, worked and published widely across the arts. Her memoir, The Weight of Silence, was a The Age and Sydney Morning Herald Book of the Year, a Varuna Fellowship recipient and finalist in the National Biography and ABIA awards. Her novel, Things She Would Have Said Herself, is a keening portrait of a world and a woman, Leslie Bird, coming of age and to the boil, as the family she loves and loathes implodes. It will be published in April 2023.

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