Flesh Wounds
Richard Glover
Jul 2020 · Bolinda · Narrated by Richard Glover
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7 hr 12 min
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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.
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 ...
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Richard Glover is the bestselling author of a number of books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House, also available as audiobooks. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post and presents the comedy show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local Radio. Flesh Wounds won the 2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Reader’s Choice Award for Biography.
Richard Glover is the bestselling author of a number of books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House, also available as audiobooks. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post and presents the comedy show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local...
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