AWW22 The Silence Between Us - Cécile Barral, Oceane Campbell and Patrick McGorry

Chaired by Peter Goldsworthy


WARNING: CONTAINS REFERENCES TO SUICIDE.


The Silence Between Us: A Mother and Daughter's Conversation
Through Suicide and Into Life is raw, courageous and
devastatingly honest. A double memoir of mother and daughter
Cécile and Oceane, it looks back nearly twenty years on Oceane’s
suicide attempt at the age of eighteen. Compiled from
contemporaneous diaries, letters, hospital records and
psychiatric reports, the immediacy of the writing highlights the
pain and confusion of the time and makes for confronting,
necessary reading. Former Australian of the Year Pat McGorry
joins Cécile and Oceane as they bravely break open the silence
around suicide