The Telling Wall

About the Book

In The Telling Wall, the sequel to Leone Mary Britt's first novel An Inch of Love, An Inch of Ashes, the main character Calinda Carruthers continues on her troubled little sojourn through time. Among other things, she tries to change her life by doing a self awareness course which end up disgusting her. She seeks solace in other people's opinions, which confuse her even more. Her daughter Diana is diagnosed with a mental illness and things look grim. One of her great comforts is the graffiti on a wall that she passes every time she takes the bus, and this eventually becomes her avenue of redemption. Things gradually change for her as she struggles to help her daughter, and to find some peace amid the chaos. When circumstances teach her to fight she is eventually forced, by her need to make things right, to confront the most powerful members of society to reclaim her own power.

About the Author

Leone Mary Britt was born in Orange, central western New South Wales, Australia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University even though she left school aged 14. She has had two marriages, four beautiful and talented sons (one now deceased) and worked at various jobs including six years at Australian Associated Press. Leone trained as a broadcast officer at 2CR, the ABC radio station in Orange when she was known as Leone Marten. She has had short stories published in the literary magazines Meanjin and Quadrant and had poetry published in The Australian and both the Newcastle and Sydney Morning Heralds and won two national poetry prizes. An earlier manuscript of The Telling Wall was chosen in the long shortlist of 30 in the Varuna Award for Manuscript Development circa 2001.