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Where the World Begins

On Memory, Repair and Desire

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Where the World Begins

By: Rosie Price
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Summary

A devastating and exhilarating memoir about the re-emergence of memory after sexual violence, recovery and rebuilding a life

Rosie Price was twenty-three, starting a life and a career in London, when her world was turned upside down by the re-emergence of a memory of rape. As she tried to piece her life back together, and to reconcile the memory of this long-forgotten night, a deeper philosophical enquiry began.

Feeling alienated from her body, her history and the world around her, questions began to form. Who are we, if not the sum total of our memories, or the story of our life’s experiences? What happens to us when our sense of self is shattered, and how can we repair this rupture?

Price examines these questions through the lenses of art, literature, philosophy and lived experience. Where the World Begins is the story of her quest to reassemble her life, and her capacity to be in the world and to love in the aftermath of violence.

© Rosie Price 2027 (P) Penguin Audio 2027

 Abuse Art & Literature Authors Domestic Partner Abuse Dysfunctional Families Gender Studies Parenting & Families Relationships Sexual Abuse & Harassment Social Sciences Women

Critic Reviews

A profoundly moving and fiercely intelligent book. Rosie Price examines selfhood, sexual violence, and the connection between body and mind with unflinching clarity. Through both the narrator’s life and that of her friend Amy, it made me consider how a life can carry us to places we never asked to go. It is an unflinching portrait of the devastation one person’s actions can cause in the life of another, yet it is also a powerful reclamation of selfhood - one that honours resilience for the strength it truly is. The vulnerability and bravery it took to write this book are matched only by the power of the book itself. I am deeply grateful for it, for its intuition and intelligence, and for its power in voicing what is so rarely said. I know countless women will be grateful too (Elaine Feeney, author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way)
An eloquent and powerful account of trauma and its aftermath. Rosie Price writes with great care and rigour about the fraught and complex relationship between the body, the mind and the world (Lisa Owens, author of Natural Disaster)
A compelling, beautifully written, truthful and important book (Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed)
'I was so moved and impressed by Rosie Price's undaunted memoir. Price explores meaning-making from trauma, imperfect victimhood, recovered memory, and so much more, in deftly, sensitively crafted prose (Juliano Zaffino, author of The Steps)
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