Toghether her three siblings, she was brought up by her single mother. During the 1980s, she was a radical feminist and participated in the women’s liberation movement. Her topics include women and writing, switching between reality and fiction. Born 1947 in Mornington (Victoria), into a Catholic family with Socialist leanings, FINOLA MOORHEAD is an Australian novelist, poet and reviewer, with themes of subversion and survival. During the protests, which were occurring over the Vietnam War, she transferred to the University of Tasmania, graduated with a degree in Arts.
She travelled around Australia spending time with writers, before accepting a position on a magazine. She was a Victorian Premier’s Prize for Fiction laureate in 1991. FINOLA MOORHEAD was employed as a teacher before starting her professional writing career in 1973. In 1987, she wrote book Remember the Tarantella (lesbian fictional novel which has a lead character whose name begins with “I”). Among her works, the novels A Handwritten Modern Classic, Still Murder and Darkness More Visible.
A work of feminist, lesbian fiction, this experimental novel explores the lives of 26 women, during the 1980s. Novel Remember the Tarantella, leads readers on a merry dance, to keep away the forces of death, but really, it is a dance of thrilling life. A visionary novel of startling energy and passion. Its form shaped to its own image. It is a novel written in the tradition of Jeanette Winterson, giving an interpretation of how it was life for twenty-six women during the early 1980s. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0704343762/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0704343762&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
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