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It's an engaging narrative that challenges readers to think deeply about justice and empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're drawn to arts and culture or compelling biographies, the works of Lucia Osborne-Crowley promise a profound and transformative reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"my-body-keeps-your-secrets-by-lucia-osborne-crowley-9781760878108","title":"My Body Keeps Your Secrets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt occurred to me that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had been done to me. Because I believed it was all my fault.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucia Osborne-Crowley didn't tell a soul when she was raped aged fifteen. Then, eighteen months after she was attacked, her body began to turn on her - and what followed were sudden bouts of searing, unbearable pain that saw her in and out of hospital for the next ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-five, Lucia for the first time told the truth about her rape. This disclosure triggered an endless series of appointments with doctors, trauma specialists and therapists. Meanwhile, Lucia threw herself into researching the shadowy intricacies of abuse, trauma and shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMy Body Keeps Your Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e, Lucia shares the voices of women and trans and non-binary people around the world, as well as her own deeply moving testimony. She writes of vulnerability, acceptance and the reclaiming of our selves, all in defiance of a world where atrocities are committed and survivors are repeatedly told to carry the weight of that shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWidely researched and boldly argued, this book reveals the secrets our bodies bury deep within them, the way trauma can rewrite our biology, and how our complicated relationships with sex affect our connection with others. Crafted in a daring and immersive literary form, \u003cem\u003eMy Body Keeps Your Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e is a necessary, elegant and empathetic work that further establishes Lucia's credentials as a key intersectional feminist thinker for a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Brave, unflinching and infuriating, the stories Lucia has collated are ones that desperately need to be heard' Osman Faruqi, award-winning journalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Lucia Osborne-Crowley knows the natural range of the human body is so much greater than we have imagined. She has lived it. This book is a clever catalogue of the ways our bodies endure and the work they do in making sure we do, too. Osborne-Crowley writes with an elegant precision about this most urgent of subjects. Like the human body, this book contains a warning: if we do not attend to its revelations, there may well be pain. 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