- Published: 23 September 2021
- ISBN: 9781473592124
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Larger than an Orange
- Published: 23 September 2021
- ISBN: 9781473592124
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
A formally innovative, unflinching story that offers a raw, tender and urgent contribution to a vital conversation about bodies, ownership, freedom and reproductive rights
Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater
Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten
Helen Mort
Boldly innovative, achingly human, and powerfully vulnerable
Dr Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women
Rapturous, engrossing and beautifully impossible
Holly Pester, author of Comic Timing
Lyrical and beautiful... I think it is something all women will feel deeply
Kirsty Capes, author of Careless
Propulsive for its formal innovations, Larger than an Orange uses sparse, exacting prose to delineate important ideas... I was both deeply saddened, and really impressed by it
Susannah Dickey, author of Tennis Lessons
Lucy Burns navigates the complexity of politics and personal experience in this lyrical debut... Raw, intimate and honest, this is a debut that introduces Burns as a poignant new writer carving a space for nuanced and brave storytelling
The Debut Digest
Larger Than an Orange provides us with vital nuance, and articulates emotions that feel unspoken, even to women... The importance of Burns's work lies in its permission-giving
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Guardian
A visceral account of an abortion that is praiseworthy not only for the conversations it will spark, but for its beautiful prose, emotional intensity and unabashed complexity... although there is no happy ending, the book's very existence is hopeful. The point is to start a conversation - and Larger Than an Orange will certainly do that
Laura Hackett, Sunday Times
Larger than an Orange... cleverly capture[s] the weight of the convergence of choice and responsibility in an imperfect, unfair world
Lucy Scholes, Daily Telegraph
Powerful
Harper's Bazaar
Particularly courageous... propulsive
Katherine Cowles, New Statesman
Many women have written memoirs about pregnancy; very few have written about abortions. Burns does just that, revealing the reality of her termination in graphic but beautifully constructed prose. Burn's feelings about her own abortion are irreducibly complex... This is not an easy read, but it is an important one
Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
Powerful and intimate
The Northern Echo