Truths from an Unreliable Witness

Truths from an Unreliable WitnessFiona O'Loughlin was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard unless there were guests in the house. Then she'd watch everyone, telling stories, making each other laugh. This was where she discovered the rhythm of stories and the lubrication that alcohol leant the telling. Years later, as a mum of five, Fiona would become one of Australia's most loved comedians, performing gigs in New York, Montreal, Singapore, London,

In this deeply informed and moving book

where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris

to be offered his gaze into the abyss

' Observer

Eight years later Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim a hundred acres for himself

potatoes to peel and latrines to dig

A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years

doing his best to keep out of trouble before his next court date

author and columnistIn the 1840s

he's an experimental composer

weaving his and their stories together into a book that is as much a tribute to the role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of a remarkable man

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