<p><b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION*</b><br><b><br>'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse</b><br><b><br>'Electric' Lemn Sissay</b><br><b>'Searing' Julia Samuel</b><br>One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die.<br><br>But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood?<br><br>Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, <i>Dancing with the Octopus </i>lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.</p>
<p><b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION*</b><br><b><br>'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse</b><br><b><br>'Electric' Lemn Sissay</b><br><b>'Searing' Julia Samuel</b><br>One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die.<br><br>But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood?<br><br>Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, <i>Dancing with the Octopus </i>lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.</p>
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