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The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.18/5 (3369 ratings)
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From an explosive new literary talent, a searing, moving memoir of family, adolescence and sexuality.

'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, Linford (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.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
224 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0525504532
ISBN13:
9780525504535
kindle Asin:
B075HZWG2V

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.18/5 (3369 ratings)
Read Download
From an explosive new literary talent, a searing, moving memoir of family, adolescence and sexuality.

'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, Linford (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.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
224 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0525504532
ISBN13:
9780525504535
kindle Asin:
B075HZWG2V

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