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Larger than an Orange by Lucy Burns

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shanmiguel's review

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challenging emotional funny reflective slow-paced

5.0

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paulap's review

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fast-paced

4.0

Very compelling narrative, about a woman that gets an abortion and, despite it being the right decision for her, spiraling into a bubble of guilt and self hate. It gives an idea on how hard an abortion can be mentally. It was told in a very poetic and engrossing way.

emmaallenmarshall's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective

this is such a personal story of the gulf between politics and emotion. i don’t connect to it, though. i can’t relate.

caitsidhe's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

Deeply moving and very honest.

lucys_library's review

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challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.5

jasminenicholson2001's review

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This feels too personal to the author to rate, idk it just feels wrong to rate someone’s personal experience with a topic like this. This book did however teach me a lot about the process of getting an abortion in the UK and how patients are treated etc and dealt a lot with the guilt and aftermath some women feel after getting one. You could tell this was a very personal story but it was told very well and I like the structure of how the book was told and especially enjoyed the lack of characters name etc where numbers were used instead to tract who she had told etc. really powerful and makes some amazing points in how we deal with this issue in the uk.