Running in the Family: Unravelling Trauma through Memoir

Peter Godwin, Sathnam Sanghera, and Helen Macdonald, with Jill Macdonald

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A deeply personal process, memoir-writing is an act of peeling back layer after layer to reveal an author’s own sense of the truth. Peter Godwin’s Exit Wounds is a reflection on life and loss, The Boy with a Topknot delves into Sathnam Sanghera’s family experience of mental illness, and Helen Macdonald channels their grief upon their father’s death through training a goshawk in H is for Hawk. Jill Macdonald chairs the conversation.