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Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root In Trauma

Matthew Parris

A Times Biography of the Year

Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced, in childhood, trauma so severe that it should have broken them completely.

While presenting Great Lives on Radio 4, Matthew Parris noticed a trend in the lives of the exceptional people the programme covered: many of them had been marked by extreme trauma and deprivation. They seemed to have succeeded not only in spite of their backgrounds, but perhaps even because of them.

As Matthew Parris brings each individual's story to life in this original and compelling study, it becomes clear that we must rethink the origins of success, as well as the legacy of trauma.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : JUL 1, 2021
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781781257241
  • Price : INR 699
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Matthew Parris

Matthew Parris worked for the Foreign Office before serving as an MP. He now writes as a columnist for The Times and the Spectator and in 2011 won the Best Columnist award at the British Press Awards. He is the author of several books including his autobiography Chance Witness and the bestselling The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase.

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