- Title:
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Flesh Wounds
- Written by:
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Richard Glover
- Read by:
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Richard Glover
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 12 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2015
- Available Date:
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September 01 2015
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489052476
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family.
Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'.
It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams.
And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past – but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds – even if they are only flesh wounds.
Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is an audiobook for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there.