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Women talking

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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks – waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why – their stories were chalked up to ‘wild female imagination.’ ‘Women Talking’ is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their colony and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in, meet secretly in a hayloft with the intention of making a decision about how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm.

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‘Don’t miss this.’ MARGARET ATWOOD
‘Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.’ LISA McINERNEY
‘Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.’
The Times
‘An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.’ LAUREN GROFF

In a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to ‘wild female imagination.’

Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape?

‘Profound, affecting stuff.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Brave and thoughtful.’ Observer

Additional information

Weight 0.202 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

216

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K