Eggshell Skull: A memoir about standing up, speaking out and fighting back
'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen GarnerEGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot...
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'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen GarnerEGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime. But what if it also works the other way
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ISBN:
9781760295776
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
I would describe this book as memoir as suspense. The sense of foreboding created by Lee in the telling is palpable. Her story and those that she relates would be recognised by many women and girls (myself included) as that terrible unspeakable fear that lives within us, the experience of dangerousn...