Venue: Heritage Centre – Meath County Council Stage
Teethmarks on my Tongue is Eileen Battersby’s first novel, a coming-of-age story with impressive characterization, humour and a vivid sense of place which takes a clever, if barely street-wise and increasingly obsessive, teenaged narrator on a physical as well as psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity. ‘A literary critic for The Irish Times with several awards under her belt, Eileen Battersby has brought us a thoroughly original narrator: a pedant and self-proclaimed prig who sweeps the reader along by sheer force of her quirky insights, deadpan humor, and disarming honesty.’ Los Angeles Review of Books.
