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I remember Lisa’s compelling review. This book is definitely on the radar. I’d have to pick a time when I was up for it though. Now isn’t that time, but I do want to read it.
Excellent review, but the book sounds too confronting for me.
Hello Janine, I’m so glad it had that impact on you, even if it was confronting. I’ll never forget discovering that a neighbour across the road had spent the night sitting on the doorstep with her two little ones, and that she had not come across the road to me to ask for shelter. I was so ashamed that she felt she could not wake me in the middle of the night. All of us need to be alert for the signs, and as women, to let other women know that we are there for them if they need it.
The subject sounds good. It is not something that is normally written about. The whole wider subject of why people stay with abusive partners needs more of public profile. To people who say, just leave, really don’t understand.
Sounds fascinating – will put it on the to read list. Just not sure when. Could be a hell of a rollercoaster. Definitely a daytime rather than night time read I’m guessing. People know this stuff is going on around them but feel powerless to help or interfere. It’s the sort of thing that breeds powerlessness.