Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
โ Harriet Shawcross
๐ Library
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2019
๐ Canongate Books
๐ English
'Compassionate' Guardian 'Extremely affecting' Scotsman As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of c