WHAT A SHAME by Abigail Bergstrom, read by Heather Long - audiobook extract
b"Adults meets little scratch in this bold, funny and tender debut, which captures the pain of heartbreak and the universal heat of female shame through a very unique journey towards self-acceptance.\\n\\nThe idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with something dark' was disconcertingly unanimous.\\n\\nI wondered if this was something you also saw in me, if that was why you left.\\n\\nThere is something wrong with Mathilda.\\n\\nShe's still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch breakup and grieving the death of a loved one.\\n\\nBut that's not it.\\n\\nShe's cried all her tears, mastered her crow pose and thrown out every last reminder of him.\\n\\nBut that's not helping.\\n\\nConcerned that she isn't moving on, Mathilda's friends push her towards a series of increasingly unorthodox remedies.\\n\\nUntil the seams of herself begin to come undone.\\n\\nTender, unflinching and blisteringly funny, What a Shame glitters with rage and heartbreak, an offers up the joy of self-acceptance through an extraordinary rite of passage to overcome the prickly heat of female shame."