What a Shame

Name: What a Shame
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
Price: 35.99 AUD
Availability: OnlineOnly

The must read literary debut for fans of Emma Gannon, Holly Bourne and Caroline O'Dononghue

Read by: Heather Long

Author: Abigail Bergstrom

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
07:24.42

Published: 3rd February 2022

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Adults meets little scratch in this bold, funny and tender debut, which captures the pain of heartbreak and the universal heat of female shame through a very unique journey towards self-acceptance.

'Absorbing and clever, I fell in love with Mathilda'
Cathy Rentzenbrink

The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with something dark' was disconcertingly unanimous.

I wondered if this was something you also saw in me, if that was why you left.

There is something wrong with Mathilda.

She's still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch break up and grieving the death of a loved one.

But that's not it.

She's cried all her tears, mastered her crow pose and thrown out every last reminder of him.

But that's not helping.

Concerned that she isn't moving on, Mathilda's friends push her towards a series of increasingly unorthodox remedies.

Until the seams of herself begin to come undone.

Tender, unflinching and blisteringly funny, What a Shame glitters with rage and heartbreak, an offers up the joy of self-acceptance through an extraordinary rite of passage to overcome the prickly heat of female shame.

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