![A Story that Happens: On playwriting, childhood, & other traumas](http://monsterbookshop.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/9781909585386_3c369d26-6ac7-4e10-9495-ae4330fb807f.jpg?v=1719284268&width=1445)
Drawing deeply on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and of collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, 'afraid and hopeful', we begin to tell them.