Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
$57.60
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2020
Summary
‘The best and the worst of our shared humanity…breathtaking and heartbreaking.’ The Hon. Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO
One woman’s astonishing journey from unimaginable trauma to becoming a power for good.
In 1999, Sierra Leone was in the midst of a brutal civil war where mindless violence, vicious amputation and the rape of young enslaved women were the everyday weapons of bloody conflict.
It was also where rebel soldiers snatched the young Aminata Conteh-Biger from her f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760784966 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760784966 |
| Author: | Aminata Conteh-Biger, Juliet Rieden |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 465g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 155mm x 232mm |
Aminata Conteh-Biger
Aminata Conteh-Biger is an author, inspirational speaker, performer, mother and wife, and former refugee turned Founder and CEO of the Aminata Maternal Foundation. Born in Sierra Leone, she now lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.
Juliet Rieden has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working between the UK and Australia for a variety of magazines and newspapers as a writer and editor. She is currently Editor-At-Large at The Australian Women’s Weekly where she also works as the Royal Correspondent and the Books Editor. Juliet is also a non-fiction author with Pan Macmillan. Her previous books are The Writing on the Wall and The Royals in Australia.
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