AWW22 The Silence Between Us - Cecile Barral, Oceane Campbell and Patrick McGorry
Chaired by Peter Goldsworthy
\nWARNING: CONTAINS REFERENCES TO SUICIDE.
\nThe 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 C\xe9cile and Oceane, it looks back nearly twenty years on Oceane\u2019s 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 C\xe9cile and Oceane as they bravely break open the silence around suicide