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Intimate connections

From Cleaning Lady to the Voice
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January–February 2025, no. 472

The Voice Inside by John Farnham with Poppy Stockell

Hachette, $49.99 hb, 368 pp

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Intimate connections

From Cleaning Lady to the Voice
by
January–February 2025, no. 472

It is dreadful to lose one’s voice. Most of us can mime our way through an episode of laryngitis or the anaesthetised numbness that follows dental surgery, confident that normalcy will return. But imagine knowing that normalcy was gone for good. As Flora Willson recently put it, there is an ‘intimate connection between voice and identity’. We are the sounds we make.

The Voice Inside

The Voice Inside

by John Farnham with Poppy Stockell

Hachette, $49.99 hb, 368 pp

Buy this book

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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