Bitin' Back

Vivienne Cleven

2025年12月 · Bolinda · 讲述者：Sara Terry

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When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, this is a truthful rendering of small-town prejudice and racist attitudes. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of his discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man's only escape. Neither pig shoots, bust-ups at the Two Dogs, bare-knuckle sessions in the shed nor even a police siege can slow the countdown on this human timebomb.

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Vivienne Cleven was born in 1968 in Surat and grew up in western Queensland, homeland of her Aboriginal heritage. She left school at 13 to work with her father as a jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle and working at various jobs on stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales. In 2000 Cleven won the David Unaipon Award with her manuscript for Bitin' Back. In demand at literary events and workshops, she has published articles and fiction in anthologies, magazines and journals. Her second novel, Her Sister's Eye (2002), won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the Kate Challis RAKA Award for Creative Prose. Cleven lives in the bush, and is currently studying for a PhD and working on her latest novel.

Sara Terry is a Yamatji actor with connections to Noongar Country and the Pilbara; she is currently living on Wurundjeri Country. Like many blakfullas in WA her childhood involved road trips, moving around and ending up in Perth to complete school. Since she could talk, Sara wanted to perform, enjoying drama and eventually studying at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Moving to Melbourne in 2021 she currently works as a ranger, while spending her spare time auditioning, weaving and reading romantasy. Sara is deeply inspired by her matriarchal line, which has taught her to always trust her gut. Sara has narrated Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven for Bolinda audio.