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Tabitha Bird

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Brisbane, Australia

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Contemporary, Magical Realism

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December 2009

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In a bayside suburb of Queensland, Australia, Tabitha Bird grew up in a garden. It wasn’t much of a garden, but she told stories to ferns and weeds alike and gave herself something to hope in that was bigger than she was. Eventually, she had to leave the garden and do responsible things like grow up. When her own children came along she read stories with gumption and wild joy and got to thinking that perhaps she had some of her own to tell. The first whispering of story she heard was from a forgotten child that lived in that long-ago garden. Together with her family she moved to Boonah, Australia, where her novel is set. Her Chihuahua, husband and three sons are all the reason she needs to believe there is still magic in this world. A LIFET ...more

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	A Lifetime of Impossible Days 4.05 avg rating — 1,642 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Comfort Book

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This Taste for Silence (UQP Short Fiction)

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“We are all the ages we have ever been. We carry around our trauma. And if we have unfinished business at one of those ages, we can't move on to have a healthy adult life.”
― Tabitha Bird, A Lifetime of Impossible Days

tags: childhood-trauma, mental-health

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“Remembering your past and dealing with it will no doubt be expensive. But I'm telling you, forgetting costs more.”
― Tabitha Bird, A Lifetime of Impossible Days

tags: childhood-trauma, generational-trauma

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Home Fires by Fiona Lowe

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Tabitha’s Quotes

“She's the first person to smile at me today.
The first to make me feel wanted.
Understood.
I blink back tears.
It's unknown how many students' lives
librarians have saved
by welcoming loners at lunch.”
― Lisa Fipps, Starfish

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“I'm a starfish,
taking up all the room I want.”
― Lisa Fipps, Starfish

tags: confidence, room, space, starfish

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