num_pages: 238
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mouthing the Words
titlecomplete: Mouthing the Words
genres: Fiction, Abuse, Mental Illness, Adult, Mental Health, Contemporary, Canada, Adult Fiction, Novels, Psychology
ratings_count: 859
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random