AWW22 Fury - Kathryn Heyman

Chaired by Yves Rees


CW: Discussion of rape, assault. When Kathryn Heyman was 20, she
was raped by a taxi driver on her way home from a party. He was
found not guilty on account of Kathryn’s alcohol consumption and
choice of underwear. “So if he is not guilty? What then? What am
I? Did I have to be an innocent to be innocent?” asks Kathryn.
This scorching memoir blazes with an eloquent rage, but also hope
and transcendence, as Kathryn rewrites the ending to become the
heroine in her own grand adventure on a fishing trawler in the
Timor Sea.