{"product_id":"telltale","title":"Telltale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only the books in her house, even if some, such as the much-loved Thornton Wilder’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bridge of San Luis Rey,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e appear to be stubbornly elusive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHer library is comprehensive, and each book chosen or that cannot be refused enables an opening, a connection to people, time, place, myth, image, and the experience of a writing life. From her father’s bomb shelter to her mother’s raspberry jam, from a lost Georgian public library with ‘narrow little streets of books’ to the memory of crossing by bridge the turbulent waters of the Tamar River, to a revelatory picnic at Tasmania’s Cataract Gorge in 1945, this is the most intimate of memoirs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is one that never shies from the horrors of world history, the treatment of First Nations People, or the literary misrepresentations of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginal, lyrical, and hugely enjoyable,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTelltale\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, with its finely wrought insight and artful storytelling, is destined to delight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carmel Bird","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43287173824681,"sku":"9781925760927","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/266064686e6c7a264026303865244d3f535d48474527565a453839393956.jpg?v=1697155877","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/telltale","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}