{"product_id":"9780733625947","title":"The Weight of Silence: A memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA moving and funny childhood memoir ... timeless.'  AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'This is a special memoir. It is written with great feeling, imagination, humour and originality, and shows a writer with a distinct view of the world within and around her.'  AUSTRALIAN BOOKSELLER \u0026amp; PUBLISHER MAGAZINE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo you remember the day you realised you were you?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Therese does and invites you inside her head and upside down on a unique coming-of-age rollercoaster, chased by a purple feather duster through the sticky bitumen suburban streets of her 70s childhood - egged by Bernard King, terrorised by a frizzy-haired hooker with an axe - to going all the way with Meatloaf and a boy with half a thumb, in her achingly funny, intensely moving memoir ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of a girl losing and finding herself in the secrets that shape her life; the power of family, silence, language, grog and love ... of becoming who you truly are. A mother before she's a woman; a girl who carries a shard of windscreen glass, votes for herself and believes in holding rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE WEIGHT OF SILENCE is a brave beautiful book that will break your heart and mend it in the same breath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46501876007153,"sku":"9780733625947","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780733625947_p0.jpg?v=1765531888","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780733625947","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}