‘Christchurch forgot what they sat on, and, in the same way but for different reasons, I realised that there was wilful forgetting in my family to the extent that I never once heard my father speak of his parents and only fleetingly and indirectly did my mother speak of hers,’ says Lloyd Jones, talking to the Age about his just-published memoir, A History of Silence.

Lloyd was in Melbourne for the 2013 Melbourne Writers Festival and the Wheeler Centre has him on video. Lloyd also spoke to ABC’s John Faine—you can listen to him here.

A History of Silence is available now in bookshops and online.