Larger than an Orange av Lucy Burns

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<p><b>*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*</b><br><b><br>''Raw, tender and urgent'' Jessica Andrews, author of <i>Saltwater</i></b><br><br><b>''Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten'' Helen Mort, author of <i>Division Street</i></b><br><br><b>This is the story of an abortion. </b><br><br>The days and hours before the first visit to the clinic and the weeks and months after.<br><br>The pregnancy was a mistake and the narrator immediately arranges a termination. But a gulf yawns between politics and personal experience. The polarised public debate and the broader cultural silence did not prepare her for the physical event or the emotional aftermath. She finds herself compulsively telling people about the abortion (and counting those who know), struggling at work and researching the procedure. She feels alone in her pain and confusion.<br><br>Part diary, part prose poem, part literary collage, <i>Larger than an Orange</i> is an uncompromising, intimate and original memoir.