Terrifying cautionary tale

Published date28 September 2022
By Nora Murphy, Macmillan, $37.99

“Professional abuse” — controlling and abusive behaviour by doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals is the subject of this rip-roaring novel by a lawyer who knows all about it.

Nora Murphy is an expert in intimate partner violence, perpetrated by those with high-profile careers or respected positions in society, which puts their victims in a very difficult situation.

She’s written a novel to show how this works, and how vulnerable the partners are when their husbands are psychopaths. Leah is a lawyer, married to a fellow lawyer for a short time when the abuse starts. Her busband wants her to be perfect for him, and when she isn’t he banishes her to live in the basement, gets her fired, drives her to drink.

She spots something familiar...

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