Books Books
Series: New Stories from the Mabinogion
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 200
ISBN: 9781781721056
Publication date: October 15, 2013
Price: £8.99
Series: New Stories from the Mabinogion
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 200
ISBN: 9781781721070
Publication date: October 15, 2013
Price: £7.19
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Enid wants a dog and wants to be a spy, but listening in on adult conversations doesn’t seem to bring her any nearer to understanding their troubled world. For all that, when times get tough and she has to stay with the Erbins, particularly her rich and spoilt cousin Geraint, she has plenty of verbal ammunition to help her fight her corner.
Trezza Azzopardi transforms the medieval heroine who won’t be silenced into a brave 1970s girl from downtown Splott in Cardiff who, no matter how difficult the circumstances, always seems to get the last word.
The original Enid defends her misguided husband by warning him of approaching villains, even though he has forbidden her to speak. Trezza Azzopardi’s young Enid is also unlikely to respect a gagging order.
Trezza Azzopardi’s The Tip of my Tongue is a re-imagining of The Mabinogion story ‘Geraint and Enid’.
Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and Welsh mother. She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where she is currently a lecturer.
Her first novel The Hiding Place (2000), is the story of a Maltese family living in Cardiff during the 1960s. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short listed for both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). The book was also adapted for Radio 4’s ‘Books at Bedtime’ and has been translated in to 14 languages. Her second novel, Remember Me (2004), centres on 72-year-old Lilian (also known as Winnie), a homeless woman, in search of her stolen possessions and her troubled past. Her second most recent novel is The Song House (2010), after The Tip of My Tongue (2013).
Listen to Trezza Azzopardi read an extract from her novel, The Tip of My Tongue:
