No words for this: a memoir - Ali Mau

Since the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist just like her dad. A beer-swilling, straight-talking man who was rough around the edges but could quote passages of Hamlet at will, he taught Ali everything from rabbit-hunting to throwing a punch and crafting a sharp sentence. Didn't matter that he complained loudly of his sexless marriage and put down the women in their social circle - these were just a mark of the times, Ali thought. Then one day Ali's sister called her out of the blue for a conversation forty years in the making.

In this book, Ali recounts what happened when she reckoned with flashbacks of a buried past. She began to question her whole identity and the reason she became a journalist. It set Ali on a new path for herself and for other survivors of sexual abuse. As the leading journalist for New Zealand's #MeToo movement, Ali was forced to ask the same questions so many others face: Am I strong enough to go through this? What does justice look like?

HarperCollins NZ 2025. Trade paperback, 304 pages.

ISBN: 9781775542537

Condition: new paperback.