The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma#1 New York Times bestseller Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society. Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath

lightly fictionalised

I was born in the year of the supersonic

it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us

and there were shenanigans and skulduggery committed by locals and outsiders alike

Watched over by guards

perfect novel" —Chicago Sun-Times

but they will all wind up in the same shocking place

It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like “death by a thousand cuts” and put an end to foot-binding

but the more they discover about Greg

'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' Guardian

she’s stronger than ever

But the transformation of our romantic lives can’t be explained by technology alone