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The tension builds in Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead + Bel Schenk portrays teen angst in The Most Famous Boy in Town
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The outwardly comfortable life of mother and wife, Winona Dalloway, has dark currents running beneath. "Thunderhead" is her interior monologue as she navigates the everyday acts of collecting the children from school, shopping and preparing for a dinner party when in fact she is a woman in peril. A homage to Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway", "Thunderhead" is a reminder of the terror that can lurk unseen in the lives of others.
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Bet Schenk brings a poet’s pared-down style and awareness of the power of language to this story set in a small country town where the local teen hero is actually anything but - and his brother knows the truth. "The Most Famous Boy in Town" is billed as teen fiction but it’s a story for all ages.
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Our regular leading literary light Kylie Cardell reviews "Lioness" by Emily Perkins, winner of the 2024 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards.
Guests
Miranda Darling, author and poet
Bel Schenk, author and poet
Kylie Cardell, Associate Professor , English and Creative Writing, Flinders University
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Spineless Wonders Press https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/
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1. The tension builds in Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead + Bel Schenk portrays teen angst in The Most Famous Boy in Town (00:00:00)
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4. Marker 03 (00:18:45)
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