Book Title: Give Me a Memory: a Complex Trauma Memoir
Author: Robyn L Parkinson
Publisher: The Husky Press
Book Distributor: Robyn L Parkinson
ISBN: 9780473755614
Blurb:
What do you do, when your grief has no memory and you are haunted by love that was never there?
From the tropics of Jamaica to the affluent North Shore of New Zealand’s largest city, Robyn’s childhood looks like paradise. Her adult life seems successful, too – until she stands for election to her city council. After years of local leadership, the unexpected loss spirals her into a life-threatening hunt to get the support she desperately needs. Robyn comes to realise that her childhood of chronic emotional neglect cannot simply be left behind. Denial and dissociation helped her survive her experience, separating her from the unbearable pain and grief. But the result is complex trauma: a condition akin to PTSD, only worse. Now that survival instinct to dissociate is the very thing making her symptoms so hard to heal – along with a poorly equipped health system that retraumatises survivors at every turn. Readers of What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo and No Words for This by Alison Mau will be drawn by this brave, tender, insightful, honest, and hopeful book, backed by thorough research and references to leaders in the field of childhood trauma
RRP: $39.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 229 x 152mm
Audience age range: 18+
Publication Date: 15 October 2025
Publicity details: Book launch Sunday 19th October
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