Born: Established: 1965 ;
Gender:
Female
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Awards for Works
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The Weight of Silence
Sydney
:
Hachette Australia
,
2009
Z1588461
2009
single work
autobiography
'The Weight of Silence is the gravity of all the unsaids, the unseens, and how they shape our lives. A father s drinking, a mother s shame, a daughter s longing to hold onto a trouser leg to hear someone speak of what never happened.
The Weight of Silence = 9 lbs 4 ozs.
In her achingly funny, heartbreaking childhood memoir, Catherine Therese takes the reader inside her head, and upside down on a unique emotional rollercoaster from picking her belly button in her backyard in Blacktown, pulling her hair out standing on her head, to the stage; hiding inside her wardrobe interpreting silence, to the bedroom of a boy with half a thumb and to the labour ward, in an unforgettable story of remembering, forgetting, pretending, of becoming who you are.' (From the publisher's website.)
- 2010 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Newcomer of the Year
- 2010 shortlisted National Biography Award
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