A House in Sicily by Luisa Adorno Groundswell Speaker 2024 Red Memory uncovers forty years

Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness

With enchanting line drawings by by Peter Bailey

and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower

in Kristen Ciccarelli’s A Dark Forgetting

Six dangerous outcasts

A House in Sicily by Luisa Adorno Groundswell Speaker 2024 Red Memory uncovers forty yearsDuring WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their daughter a loud little dog and worrying constantly,