The Ballad of Siddy Church (Signed copy) - gesigneerd exemplaar

Filled with larger-than-life, strong, willful and unconventional women, this novel is tragic, exotic, shocking and funny., Eadie Wilt, the narrator of this magical novel from Australia, is a girl raised in a houseful of women, or, as she says, among the poetry of aunties. The most formidable of these grand females is her grandmother Siddy, who was married to Joe Flood and then fell in love with a woman old enough to be her mother. Eadie Wilt hears fabulous tales of her iconoclastic grandmother's adventures and uses the tales to inspire her own rebellion. She runs away to join an aboriginal settlement for a while, misbehaves at school, mocks the sacred texts of Hemingway, and has dubious relations with women. Lin Van Hek's prose is fast paced, quirky, and lush.