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Fury

By: Kathryn Heyman
Narrated by: Kathryn Heyman
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A road map of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn’t see heroism in the shape of a girl. 

At the age of 20, after a traumatic sexual assault trial, Kathryn Heyman ran away from her life and became a deckhand on a fishing trawler in the Timor Sea. Coming from a family of poverty and violence, she had no real role models, no example of how to create or live a decent life, how to have hope or expectations. But she was a reader. She understood story, and the power of words to name the world. This was to become her salvation.

After one wild season on board the Ocean Thief, the only girl among tough working men, facing storms, treachery and harder physical labour than she had ever known, Heyman was transformed. Finally, she could name the abuses she thought had broken her, could see ‘all that she had been blind to, simply to survive’. More than that, after a period of enforced separation from the world, she was able to return to it newly formed, determined to remake the role she’d been born into.

A reflection on the wider stories of class, and of growing up female with all its risks and rewards, Fury is a memoir of courage and determination, of fighting back and finding joy.

©2020 Kathryn Heyman (P)2020 W F Howes Abuse Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Dysfunctional Families Parenting & Families Relationships Sexual Abuse & Harassment Women Survival

Critic Reviews

"Utterly compelling." (Carrie Tiffany)

"White-hot." (Bri Lee)

"A personal and literary triumph." (Anna Funder)
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Wow brilliant book and excellently read. This girls tale of survival and furious strength will resonate with many young women finding themselves.

Thoroughly good listening and heartfelt story

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What a memorable book! A story of struggle, survival, strength and triumph. The author's narration personalised the story-telling and I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.

Compelling and remarkable

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This book is exceptional. It is a brutally honest, heart rending and incredibly courageous tale. At times I was moved to tears, at times infuriated by the injustice of it all, at times I laughed out loud. Through it all I felt bittersweet nostalgia for times long past. It is overall, an uplifting and insightful account of living through and beyond sexual assault. It’s an experience more common than it should be but not often spoken about in such an open and skilful way. It is also beautifully narrated by the author. I have no doubt I will listen to this one again. This book, like any of Heyman’s, is well worth the read.

Inspirational and entertaining - well worth the read

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