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Mouthing The Words
  • Published: 1 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099286585
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $19.99

Mouthing The Words

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'You won't find a more passionate voice-smart, punchy prose - a smashing combination of the heartbreaking and the hilarious' - Vogue

Thelma is six years old. Life at home is unsettling and disturbing; her father's games are not enjoyable and her mother dotes on Willy, the favoured child. When her parents move to Canada, Thelma smuggles her imaginary friends with her in her suitcase.

By turns harrowing and wonderfully funny, Mouthing the Words tells Thelma's story of sexual abuse, anorexia, borderline multiple personality disorder and her return to England. Reminiscent of Jeanette Winterson and Sylvia Plath, Mouthing the Words is a remarkable and inspiring fiction debut.
  • Published: 1 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099286585
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Camilla Gibb

CAMILLA GIBB was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of four internationally acclaimed novels—Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life, Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement—as well as the bestselling memoir This is Happy. Camilla has been the recipient of the Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the CBC Canadian Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has a Ph.D. from Oxford University and is an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph.

Visit her at www.camillagibb.com
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Praise for Mouthing The Words

Gibb seduces the reader with sparky prose and charming storylines before drawing us onto a heart-wrenching rollercoaster ride

Guardian

It's sassy, it's smart... Go girl!

Jeanette Winterson

Beautiful and compelling... an insightful and humane exploration of the space between reason and imagination

The Times

This is a bold and ambitious debut from a writer who sows the seeds of great promise

Daily Express

Fresh and original

Sunday Times