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Dancing with the Octopus

By Debora Harding

Dancing with the Octopus Memories

Dancing with the Octopus

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION* 'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse 'Electric' Lemn Sissay 'Searing' Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die. But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood? Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2021-07-01
Publication Date:
2021-07-01
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1788165179
ISBN13:
9781788165174
Weight:
350 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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