KATHRYN HEYMAN

Fury

‘Fury is the story of the year in my life after a sexual assault trial, when I ran away to work on trawler in the Timor Sea, and it saved me.

‘I always knew I would write about my time on the Ocean Thief – the storms, the theft, the betrayal – but I didn’t know how. It’s taken decades of craft to harness this story, to have the skills to tell it. This is a story about taking the tools of fiction and using them to create a joyful life, a thriving life. Transformation is possible. I know that, because I lived it.’
– Kathryn Heyman

‘Fury is a gripping and brilliantly written story of a young woman’s survival, up there with the very best of adventure memoirs such as The Salt Path by Raynor Winn or Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. Kathryn Heyman has pulled off an amazing feat, giving a true story of trauma and recovery all the narrative pull and beauty of the best of novels. Her account of the tough realities of life for an unprotected young woman, of the over-riding imperatives of education and class, is a literary work that will stand the test of time and has international bestseller written all over it.’

– Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard

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