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'In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her exams while her two younger sisters Carlie and Lisa went skiing with their father. On the way back from their trip, their car veered off the highway, flipped on its side and burst into flames. Both her sisters were killed. Their father walked away from the accident with only minor injuries.
'This book is about what happened next.
'In a memoir of breathtaking power, Chloe Higgins describes the heartbreaking aftermath of that one terrible day. It is a story of grieving, and learning to leave grief behind, for anyone who has ever loved, and lost.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Brittany Higgins’ Memoir Will Join a Powerful Australian Collection Reclaiming Women’s Stories of Trauma. Here Are Four
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 April 2021;
— Review of Eggshell Skull 2018 single work autobiography ; No Matter Our Wreckage 2020 single work autobiography ; The Anti Cool Girl 2015 single work autobiography ; The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'Brittany Higgins has signed a book deal with Penguin Random House Australia. Not just any book — a memoir.'
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Skin Hunger
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2020;'For two years, I kept track of how many days it had been since we’d last had sex. If it had been more than seven days, I told myself I had to put out. If it had been one or two, my body was my own. The first time I realised this was not normal was when I posted about it on Facebook.' (Introduction)
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Adele Dumont Reviews The Girls by Chloe Higgins
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , August no. 25 2020;
— Review of The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'The title of Chloe Higgins’ debut memoir is shorthand for her two younger sisters, victims of a fatal car accident when the author is aged seventeen. Her family avoids using their individual names, explains Higgins, so that ‘they are separate from us, an abstract thing on which we need not hang our pain’. In her frank depictions of drug use, sex work, mental illness, and her fraught relationship with her bereaved mother, Higgins might be described as unflinching in her approach. But the telling of this story is equally characterised by a flinching: from the memory of her sisters; from her own pain.' (Introduction)
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Chloe Higgins : The Girls
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2020;
— Review of The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'How do we talk about grief? Chloe Higgins’s memoir reveals her response to the loss of her sisters, and the impact of that loss on her parents. '
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What I’m Reading
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019;
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Unflinching Look at Family in Deadly Grip
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 September 2019; (p. 22)
— Review of The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'Early in The Girls, Chloe Higgins recounts her father’s reaction when he learns his two other children were killed in the car accident that has put him in hospital. “It is almost cartoonish, the way his mouth spreads open and his eyes push together, his forehead scrunching in on itself … ” Higgins writes of Maurice, who was driving the family car when it swerved into oncoming traffic and burst into flames, daughters Carlie and Lisa still trapped inside.' (Introduction)
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Chloe Higgins : The Girls
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2020;
— Review of The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'How do we talk about grief? Chloe Higgins’s memoir reveals her response to the loss of her sisters, and the impact of that loss on her parents. '
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Adele Dumont Reviews The Girls by Chloe Higgins
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , August no. 25 2020;
— Review of The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'The title of Chloe Higgins’ debut memoir is shorthand for her two younger sisters, victims of a fatal car accident when the author is aged seventeen. Her family avoids using their individual names, explains Higgins, so that ‘they are separate from us, an abstract thing on which we need not hang our pain’. In her frank depictions of drug use, sex work, mental illness, and her fraught relationship with her bereaved mother, Higgins might be described as unflinching in her approach. But the telling of this story is equally characterised by a flinching: from the memory of her sisters; from her own pain.' (Introduction)
-
Brittany Higgins’ Memoir Will Join a Powerful Australian Collection Reclaiming Women’s Stories of Trauma. Here Are Four
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 April 2021;
— Review of Eggshell Skull 2018 single work autobiography ; No Matter Our Wreckage 2020 single work autobiography ; The Anti Cool Girl 2015 single work autobiography ; The Girls : A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality 2019 single work autobiography'Brittany Higgins has signed a book deal with Penguin Random House Australia. Not just any book — a memoir.'
-
Skin Hunger
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2020;'For two years, I kept track of how many days it had been since we’d last had sex. If it had been more than seven days, I told myself I had to put out. If it had been one or two, my body was my own. The first time I realised this was not normal was when I posted about it on Facebook.' (Introduction)
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What I’m Reading
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019;
Awards
- 2020 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 2020 shortlisted National Biography Award
- 2020 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — People's Choice Award