When We Remember They Call Us Liars

Suzanne Covich

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 184 pages

"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 mother and crawls between his daughters' sheets. In this extraordinary memoir of childhood, Suzanne Covich writes in a voice as raw and compelling and alive as if she were sitting across from you with a cup of coffee, reading aloud." -- Publisher description.

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Review: When we remember they call us liars

User Review  - Guy Salvidge - Goodreads

Suzanne Covich's memoir is about growing up in a run down and feral part of Australia in the sixties. I'm used to reading grim stories so I wasn't bothered by the subject matter - which in this case ...

Review: When we remember they call us liars

User Review  - Diane - Goodreads

Suzzane writes engaging, intensely personal prose. One young reviewer said it was a “completely uncensored” account of childhood but of course this is hardly the case. It was quite discreet the way ...

About the author

Suzanne Covich is a children's rights activist, a high school teacher, and the recipient of two National Excellence in Teaching Awards. She is also a poet and the editor of A Circle in a Room Full of Squares.

Bibliographic information

• Title: When We Remember They Call Us Liars
• Author: Suzanne Covich
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1921888849, 9781921888847
• Length: 184 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Women