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'Compassionate' Guardian
'Extremely affecting' Scotsman


As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.

From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

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'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she... Read more

    Publisher: Canongate Books
    Publication Date: 06/02/2020
    ISBN13: 9781786890078, 978-1786890078
    ISBN10: 1786890070

    Number of Pages: 352

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    'Compassionate' Guardian
    'Extremely affecting' Scotsman


    As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.

    From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

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