Congratulations! 2020 ‘Stella Prize’ Winner Jess Hill for her novel ‘See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse’.
The ‘Stella Prize’ is one of our favourtie awards here at City of Parramatta Libraries. With each year being a celebration of the talent and quality of Australian women’s writing in our every growing community of Australian Writers.
Each year the ‘Parra Reads Group’ of book-crazy Librarian’s get together and read all the books that make it to the ‘Stella’ shortlist and of course discuss each one. For the past two years we have featured that discussion on our podcast, Parra Pods. This year in episode 33 Nisa and Sandra read and discussed ‘See What You Made Me Do’; which stood out among the other titles as a “gripping & essential read”. I can remember Nisa very passionately telling anyone who would listen that they had to read ‘See What You Made Me Do’.
If you missed our special ‘Stella Prize’ episode of Parra Pods you can listen anytime on Podbean, Apple Podcasts and Google Play, or here!
As a special promotion for Book Clubs and our wider reading community, ‘See What You Made Me Do’ is available as an eBook with NO WAITING, NO HOLDS! Available to download from our rbDigital app. Just download the app to start ‘Reading Together’, at home!
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‘See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse’
Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave? We should be asking: why did he do it?
Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators – and the systems that enable them – in the spotlight. See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into the abuse so many women and children experience – abuse that is often reinforced by the justice system they trust to protect them. Critically, it shows that we can drastically reduce domestic violence – not in generations to come, but today.
Combining forensic research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do radically rethinks how to confront the national crisis of fear and abuse in our homes. From Black Inc.
Happy Reading!
Parra Reads Group
P.S.
Some of our favourites from past lists and winners include:
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Shortlisted Title, 2014.
The Strays by Emily Bitto. Winner 2015.
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna. Shortlisted Title, 2015.
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood. Winner, 2016.
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew. Shortlisted Title, 2016.
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose. Winner, 2017.
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain. Shortlisted Title, 2017.
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire. Shorlisted Title, 2017.