The Silicon Tongue
The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the authorities into believing she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption. She discovers a kinship with a teenage nethead called Pixel and learns that old women can fly in cyberspace along with the young. Meanwhile, Alice’s daughter Joy finds out that when it comes to family stories there is always more than one version of the truth.
1996 | ISBN 9781875559497 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 235 pp
Reviews
'One of the best reads I have ever had. I couldn’t put it down, gripped in the exploration of intersecting lives, rejoicing that women in their seventies can fly in cyberspace.'
–Diane Nason, Hot Gos