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The Terrible

By Yrsa , Daley-Ward

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2018
ISBN
9780143132622, 9780525504535, 0525504532, 9781846149832, 1846149835
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
812 kB (831648 bytes)
Pages
224 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

'You may not run away from the thing that you are because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.' This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened - 'even the Terrible Things (and God, there were Terrible Things)'. It's about her childhood in the north-west of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia, Linton (the man formerly known as Dad, 'half-fun, half-frightening') and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars. It's about growing up and discovering the power and fear of her own sexuality, of pitch grey days of pills and powder and encounters. It's about damage and pain, but also joy. Told with raw intensity, shocking honesty and the poetry of the darkest of fairy tales, The Terrible is a memoir of going under, losing yourself, and finding your voice.

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