'Have I missed something here?' I wondered to myself, checking the front and back cover of the book – as well as its introductory pages for any mention of sexual abuse. Nothing.' | ✍️ emmieehw
As my eyes darted across sentences, my vision became hazy with tears and I felt a lump grow in my throat.You’d be forgiven for assuming I was scanning the news, but I wasn’t – I was reading a book. One with a bright pink cover that described its female protagonist as ‘not having a very good year’.
To me, they offer a form of escapism. A distraction from the real world, allowing you to get lost in another one – with a whole host of characters, and backgrounds. It follows a 25-year-old Jamaican-British woman, living in London. It was an extremely important book aboutAs the book describes that a trip to a sexual health clinic reveals horrific internal bruising, lacerations on the protagonist’s thighs and tearing, I actually started to feel nauseous. It took me entirely off-guard, and I had to put the book down to get some fresh air.The words rattled around my head for days and, for a long time, they were all I could see or imagine.
I agree wholeheartedly that books can offer a rare moment of education; I get that it’s important to teach young girls about consent, how to practise safe sex and view their bodies – schools certainly don’t do it well – but if an author is going to offer an insight, their books need warnings.
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