{"product_id":"9781925760927-telltale","title":"Telltale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-block-key=\"v64zb\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.’ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-block-key=\"80qse\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTelltale\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge of San Luis Rey\u003c\/i\u003e, appear to be stubbornly elusive. Her 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\/p\u003e\u003cp data-block-key=\"b643u\"\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\/p\u003e\u003cp data-block-key=\"35ni4\"\u003eOriginal, lyrical, and hugely enjoyable, \u003ci\u003eTelltale\u003c\/i\u003e, with its finely wrought insight and artful storytelling, is destined to delight.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-block-key=\"ap41o\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A book about books that dreams you through a library of life.’ \u003c\/b\u003e— \u003cb\u003eBruce Pascoe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-block-key=\"207j8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I have so loved this book! It walks us through the encounters of a lifetime, always with a delightful eye for strange connections and elusive memories. It is testimony to a life of great intellectual generosity and human compassion. It is irresistible.’ \u003c\/b\u003e— \u003cb\u003eMichael McGirr\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transit Lounge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40326607896712,"sku":"9781925760927","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/telltale-9781925760927-857832.jpg?v=1731005080","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781925760927-telltale","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}