Current Events > The Incest Diary is set to be the most controversial book of 2017

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NEW memoir that details a girl’s 18-year sexual relationship with her own father has sparked controversy over its disturbing content, before it has even hit book stands.

Bloomsbury, which published JK Rowling’s popular Harry Potter series, is set to launch The Incest Diary in Australia on September 1.

Alexis Kirschbaum, Bloomsbury’s publishing director in the UK, describes the book as “the most disturbing book [she’s] ever read” and admitted “some people are very uncomfortable with this book and some publishers are worried they would be complicit if they made it public”.

But she defended the book, which some argue “fetishises female misery”, saying it is “incredibly beautifully written”.

Stein also insists they went to great lengths to verify the story, saying they “interviewed old friends to whom the author confided the fact of her abuse years ago,” and they have also seen medical records, which were unavailable to the author when she was writing, that match her recollections.

The book’s pages are filled with disturbing and graphic descriptions of “almost unbearable intensity” according to the publisher — so much so that some are questioning whether the book is “art or exploitation”.

The writer, believed to now be in her forties, reveals her dad first abused her when she was three years old — with the sexual relationship stretching into her twenties.

The memoir includes shocking details, including how she apparently came to enjoy much of the sex with her father — particularly during her teenage years.

She also claims her mother — who went on to split with her dad when she was ten years old — and other family members were aware of the abuse.

The author writes: “To my mother, I was the other woman. She often told me that she wished I hadn’t been born.”

When she was eight, the family moved to a new house.

The book reads: “I assumed the master bedroom was for me and my father and that my mother would sleep in one of the other bedrooms.”




The cover of The Incest Diary is “purposefully understated”.

The cover of The Incest Diary is “purposefully understated”.Source:Supplied

Several British publishers are understood to have snubbed the chance to bid for the UK rights to the book, with one reportedly branding it “off-putting and uncommercial”.

Early online reviews of the book have been mixed.

“It’s like Lolita, sans the wit and poetry of Nabokov,” wrote one person on goodreads.com.

“The writing is beautifully done with the author mastering her descriptions of sights, smells, and sensations effectively enough to leave a print on the mind. Unfortunately, this is a true story and the anonymous author doesn’t hold back on the sometimes horrifying details. Well worth reading if you’ve got the stomach.”

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-incest-diary-is-set-to-be-the-most-controversial-book-of-2017/news-story/fe6bcdc9b6ff58672be8f1b5e80472a3

How long until the movie adaptation?
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Yes I see
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CE book of the month?

Incest is be--...no, I can't. That's fucking disgusting.
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Isn't incest/taboo like one of the most popular porn genres nowadays?
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Isn't incest/taboo like one of the most popular porn genres nowadays?

yeah, but actual incest is very different.
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Turbam posted...

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Isn't incest/taboo like one of the most popular porn genres nowadays?

yeah, but actual incest is very different.

The description seems like it's more talking about how the abuse negatively affects you rather than an endorsement of it. Like that fictional diary of drug users that was popular in the 2000s.
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I'm impressed, CE. 8 posts in, and no one has asked if she is hot. You all are less disgusting than I had thought.
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GiftedACIII posted...

Turbam posted...

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Isn't incest/taboo like one of the most popular porn genres nowadays?

yeah, but actual incest is very different.

The description seems like it's more talking about how the abuse negatively affects you rather than an endorsement of it. Like that fictional diary of drug users that was popular in the 2000s.

A Million Little Pieces?
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action52 posted...

I'm impressed, CE. 8 posts in, and no one has asked if she is hot. You all are less disgusting than I had thought.

Well, I mean, there's probably no pictures of her. If you wrote a book like that and all that shit happened to you, would you want your image out there?

I'd want to be as anonymous as possible
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Is she cold?
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Most popular book in Reddit history
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I think incest is pretty cool, as long as they are consenting adults. I don't see why it's a problem.
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Just seems like yesterday the gays where the ones who were fighting for love equality
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