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Ein radikal aufrichtiges Debüt. Der Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Irland: Emilie Pine spricht wie niemand sonst darüber, was es heisst, im 21. Jahrhundert eine Frau zu sein. Es ist das Buch einer ganzen Generation. Ein Buch über Geburt und Tod, sexuelle Gewalt und Gewalt gegen sich selbst, weiblichen Schmerz, Trauer und Infertilität. Es ist ein Buch über den alkoholkranken Vater, über Tabus des weiblichen Körpers. Und es ist trotz allem ein Buch über Freude, Befriedigung und Glück - unbändig, mutig, und absolut aussergewöhnlich erzählt. ( )

I was recommended this book by my manager when it came out & I have to say it is not an easy read but it is extraordinary!

In a series of essays Pine is honest and brutal in equal measures. She reaches deep inside herself and pulls out all the ugly, and heart-breaking parts of being a woman in today's society and lays it bare for us all to see, and no doubt for some - to judge.

She talks about events that we do not openly discuss. About being the child of an addict, about the minutiae of fertility and the loss surrounding it, the grief of stillbirth. She talks about sexual violence - and the forms we don't recognise when they happens. She talks about periods and blood, about women's place and value in society, about the pressure of academic life and dealing with depression.

But what is most startling about this book is even during the most brutal events there is a sense of hope... a sense of survival. I am reminded of a line that stood out to me... "writing is a way of making sense of the world, a way of processing – of possessing – thought and emotion, a way of making something worthwhile out of pain."

In all this Pine takes the pain of her life – of all our lives – and makes it worthwhile. ( )

Thought this was a fantastic collection of essays that covered really meaningful topics to the modern Irish woman. ( )

A quick read.

Recommended to all women and to any man that wants to educate himself about the HELL women go through.

Any man who wants to understand why 99% of the compliments they think they're giving a woman is not actually a compliment.

Any man who doesn't understand that "Don't" and "Stop" mean NO. Any man who doesn't understand what it means when a woman says she has been intimidated into silence.

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A new favourite. I actually tried to read this slowly so that it wouldn’t end too soon. ( )