Where the World Begins

A profoundly moving and fiercely intelligent book. Rosie Price examines selfhood, sexual violence, and the connection between body and mind with unflinching clarity. Through both the narrator’s life and that of her friend Amy, it made me consider how a life can carry us to places we never asked to go. It is an unflinching portrait of the devastation one person’s actions can cause in the life of another, yet it is also a powerful reclamation of selfhood - one that honours resilience for the strength it truly is. The vulnerability and bravery it took to write this book are matched only by the power of the book itself. I am deeply grateful for it, for its intuition and intelligence, and for its power in voicing what is so rarely said. I know countless women will be grateful too -- Elaine Feeney, author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
An eloquent and powerful account of trauma and its aftermath. Rosie Price writes with great care and rigour about the fraught and complex relationship between the body, the mind and the world -- Lisa Owens, author of Natural Disaster
A compelling, beautifully written, truthful and important book -- Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
'I was so moved and impressed by Rosie Price's undaunted memoir. Price explores meaning-making from trauma, imperfect victimhood, recovered memory, and so much more, in deftly, sensitively crafted prose -- Juliano Zaffino, author of The Steps