Suzanne Covich's Books
Jun.01.2012
Growing up in the 1960s in a small rural community, Suzanne Covich is the dux of her primary-school classes. But it’s what she learns at home that shapes the Ten Out of Ten Kid into the girl who won’t cry, who plays dead, whose vulnerability is disguised beneath Huck Finn bravado. The class clown who sometimes forgets to keep her big mouth shut. The girl whose father bashes her...
When the words I write sing to me, I dance.”
—Suzanne Covich, September 2012
About Suzanne
Suzanne Covich, the author of a childhood memoir, When We Remember They Call Us Liars (Fremantle Press, 2012) spent her early years in a large family in the country, leaving school unwillingly at thirteen to work in an old people’s home. After entering...
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