How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel

我神秘的童年如何成为畅销小说

Lives Less Ordinary

社会与文化

2024-11-25

40 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories.  Back in the 1980s, when Trent was a kid growing up in Brisbane, he discovered that there was a secret underground room behind his stepfather's wardrobe. There were plenty of other strange things happening to him too. Like when he found a bundle of cash in the pocket of his bathrobe. Or there were the rumours that his babysitter was a murderer. It took Trent many years before he untangled these mysteries and found out the reality of his childhood. He used his life story as inspiration for his debut novel Boy Swallows Universe, which became the fastest selling in Australian history. Presenter: Saskia Collette Producers: Saskia Collette and Andrea Kennedy Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784

单集文稿 ...

  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • This week on Witness History, in partnership with the BBC 100 Women list, we're bringing you stories about inspiring and influential women from around the world.

  • Renowned feminist Gloria Steinem tells us how she launched the first magazine in America, which was owned, run and written by women.

  • The the former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard remembers her famous misogyny speech.

  • And Nalini Malani from India explains why she was compelled to create art about nuclear war.

  • Search and subscribe to Witness History wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • Pac Dineshans Tetris Istanimagadet Tetris holding und widt undalie zenz ver winded.

  • When Trent Dalton was growing up on the regular, you could catch him wide eyed, kind of spaced out and looking down.

  • Reflections were big for me.

  • For whatever reason when I was a kid, like, I just loved puddles.

  • I'm talking half an hour saskia, like staring into a puddle.

  • This wasn't some narcissistic thing.

  • It was me trying to find other worlds.

  • I think I had some funny thoughts asking like, what I believed in magic.

  • I think I thought I was some sort of special kid inside his own little mythology because of the things we'd seen, right?

  • Because our lives were strange.

  • Even Trent's first memory is one of confusion.

  • Something strange, something inexplicable.

  • I'm three years old.

  • I'm sitting on a brown leather lounge.