From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame.
Through the voices of women, trans and non-binary people around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, Lucia speaks of vulnerability and acceptance, and the reclaiming of ourselves in a world that repeatedly asks us to carry the weight of the shame of the atrocities committed against us.
Widely researched and boldly argued, My Body Keeps Your Secrets reveals the secrets a body keeps — the trauma that can rewrite our biology, our relationship with sex, and how we connect with others, establishing Lucia's credentials as a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation.
From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame.
Through the voices of women, trans and non-binary people around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, Lucia speaks of vulnerability and acceptance, and the reclaiming of ourselves in a world that repeatedly asks us to carry the weight of the shame of the atrocities committed against us.
Widely researched and boldly argued, My Body Keeps Your Secrets reveals the secrets a body keeps — the trauma that can rewrite our biology, our relationship with sex, and how we connect with others, establishing Lucia's credentials as a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a writer and journalist. Her news reporting and literary work has appeared in Granta, the Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, ABC News, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others. Lucia works as a staff reporter for Law360.
‘The most anticipated books of 2021’
‘Sexuality, gender and bodies continue to dominate, with no
shortage in creative non-fiction that blends memoir, essay and
cultural history. Look out for...Lucia Osborne-Crowley's My Body
Keeps Your Secrets (June, A&U)’
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/the-most-anticipated-books-of-2021-20201226-p56q8d.html
*The Sydney Morning Herald*
‘What if We Never Recover’
https://meanjin.com.au/blog/what-if-we-never-recover/
*Meanjin Quarterly*
Review: My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
‘Osborne-Crowley begins to explore the intricacies of shame and
trauma in a way which doesn’t shy away from the true extent of the
impact that this trauma can have on an individual, but at the same
time approaches the issues with sensitivity, and with a feeling of
hope that we can overcome feelings of shame, and reclaim our
bodies.'
*The Owl on the Bookshelf*
What if, in order to find true love, you need to be alone?
*Vogue Australia*
Reviewed in short: New books from Carole Hooven, Kristian Shaw,
Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Jay Parini
‘In the post-#MeToo era there is plenty of literature on abuse and
consent. But it is rare to find a book as powerful as My Body
Keeps Your Secrets’
*New Statesman*
Author of My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, on the
lessons she learned after a devastating breakup
*Stylist*
Books Roundup: Small Joys of Real Life, The Things We See in
the Light, Lies, Damned Lies, My Body Keeps Your
Secrets
‘At the heart of this book is a strong message: It is through the
stories of others that we can finally understand our own and render
visible the structures of our own oppression.’
*Kill Your Darlings*
My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Interview with Lucia
Osborne-Crowley
*Ramona Magazine*
I survived rape, but I didn’t understand what trauma would do to
me
*The Guardian*
10 Questions for writer Lucia Osborne-Crowley: The author of ‘My
Body Keeps Your Secrets’ on trauma, shame and community
*The Arts Desk*
Ghislaine Maxwell juror breaks silence to The Independent: ‘This
verdict is for all the victims’
*The Independent*
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