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A review by rikkireads_
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
5.0
The shortest book with the mightiest punch, exploring the author's experience of abuse and rape, the shame she felt and the secrets she kept, and how the combination of that trauma and secrecy resulted in chronic pain and illness. Then, if that's not bad enough, the way she was disbelieved and unsupported when she sought medical help for that pain and illness.
Such an important book about gender, violence and how the medical profession too often responds to women's pain, but also how literature can lift people out of some dark places.
It was brave, honest, well-researched and beautifully written and I 100% would recommend.
Such an important book about gender, violence and how the medical profession too often responds to women's pain, but also how literature can lift people out of some dark places.
It was brave, honest, well-researched and beautifully written and I 100% would recommend.