Spydus Search Results - Domestic Abuse

No going home : a true story of childhood secrets and escape / Toni Maguire with Daisy Jones.

Daisy-May Jones was 4 years old when she was told by her parents the family was moving halfway across the world to Australia for a better life. Leaving everything behind, including her beloved grandparents, Daisy-May spent a happy and secure few years adapting to a new life. But after the breakdown of her parent's marriage, she stepped into a nightmare as her mother introduced a new step-father to her and her disabled brother. What followed was years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Obsessed with manipulating Daisy-May and her sexual education, her step-father continued to abuse her until she was 15 years old. All alone in 150 acres of wilderness, Daisy's only wish was to return home to her grandparent's and their love. Eventually, she managed to do so, and now works in mental health, supporting others who have been sexually abused and helping them plan their way forward.
Author: Maguire, Toni
Published: London : John Blake Publishing, [2022]
Published: ©2022
x, 355 pages ; 20 cm

Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.76 MAGU - Available - 95800000193131

Behind closed doors : why we break up families - and how to mend them / Polly Curtis.

Meet the mother whose children were taken away, and the father who fought for his son. Listen to the radical social worker, the judge, the lawyer. See inside the homes of foster carers, adoptive parents and children in care. Because behind closed doors, a scandal is ongoing. We now remove more children from their parents than ever before, more than any other western country. Not because of a rise in physical or sexual abuse, but because of complex factors that are overlooked and misunderstood.
Author: Curtis, Polly
Published: London : Virago, 2022.
320 pages ; 23 cm

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.709 CURT - Available - 95800000197449
Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.709 CURT - Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 - 95800000196795
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Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.709 CURT - In-transit from Marden Library to Maidenhead Library (Set: 08 Mar 2022) - 95800000196148
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.709 CURT - Available - 95800000196256

Block, delete, move on : it's not you, it's them / LalalaLetMeExplain.

Have you ever been on a disastrous date and vowed never to use apps again? Are you blaming yourself for the things going wrong in your love life? Do you always seem to become attached to people who treat you badly? The sad truth is that when it comes to modern dating, there are a whole host of challenges and hurdles to overcome. From ghosting and negging to gaslighting and abuse, this book teaches you what to look out for, to make sure that you're not accidentally dating men with toxic traits who secretly hate women, or who just want to have sex and run. It will empower you to use your voice and walk away if you spot warning signs in relationships, by highlighting the red flags and the types of fuckboy that you might run into when dating, as well as the green flags and signs that indicate a healthy partnership.
Author: LalalaLetMeExplain
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2022.
240 pages ; 21 cm

Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 306.73 LALA - Available - 95800000196265

All my friends are invisible / Jonathan Joly.

It was an ordinary day in 2016. In Gatwick Airport, Jonathan and his wife Anna were having breakfast with their two little children while waiting for their flight to be called. And then it happened, a familiar sensation that Jonathan hadn't had for decades: an out-of-body experience that transported him to another place, the safe place he used to escape to in his mind when he was a boy. Because growing up in conservative 1980s Dublin, where there was little tolerance for children who were 'different', Jonathan Joly was, indeed, a different sort of child: creative, expressive, and - on the inside - a girl. The limitations of the people around him to understand his differences led to years of tyrannical bullying and abuse, forcing him to withdraw within himself to the point of clinical absence. His only chance for survival was the inner world he created for himself.
Author: Saccone Joly, Jonathan, 1980-
Published: London : Quercus, 2022.
320 pages ; 24 cm

Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 305.309 SACC - Available - 95800000196786
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 920 JOLY - Available - 95800000196165

Sins of the father : abused by my father every day for a decade, this is my story of survival / Shaneda Daly with Linda Watson-Brown.

Shaneda Daly was only four when her father started grooming her. For nearly 15 years, he would go on to sexually abuse his daughter every day. The emotional and physical toll was immense and, eventually, her ex-army and prison officer father admitted to his family what he had been doing. Leaving home for only a year to get help, he was welcomed back 'a changed man'. With no choice but to accept it, Shaneda lived alongside him again only for him to try and abuse her once more. After realising she had no choice but to leave home, Shaneda finally reclaimed her power by standing up to the man who destroyed her childhood and contacted the police. Decades later, in 2011, she watched as her father was convicted of 227 counts of abuse. Shaneda now fights as a campaigner for other victims and is bravely telling her story fully for the first time: the story of a survivor.
Author: Daly, Shaneda
Published: London : John Blake Publishing, 2022.
x, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 616.858 DALY - Available - 95800000196115
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 616.858 DALY - Available - 95800000196276

The state of it : stories from the frontline of a broken care system / Chris Wild.

Can we fix how we look after children in care? Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training - campaigner and care home manager Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in care has long been a focal point of his loud message: we are failing our young people and something needs to change. Just how regulated are semi-independent care homes? How can we class young people as adults at 16? What help do we really give children after their time in care is over, left to fend for themselves? Chris delves deep into the lives of care home kids, from experiences with county lines, drugs, trafficking, knife crime, gang violence to child exploitation and sexual abuse. He shines a light on it all in the hope of changing it, telling the stories of the voiceless, the children who have been left behind, compounded by his own experiences of growing up in care.
Author: Wild, Chris
Published: London : John Blake Publishing, 2022.
296 pages ; 20 cm

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.732 WILD - Available - 95800000195768
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In control : dangerous relationships and how they end in murder / Jane Monckton-Smith.

A woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner every four days in the UK. Domestic homicide is a pandemic so pervasive that the soaring figures cause weary resignation rather than alarm. For 30 years, Professor Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she lectures on sexualised and fatal violence; works with families bereaved through homicide: and trains police and other professionals on how to best handle cases involving coercive control, domestic abuse, and stalking. In this book, Monckton Smith shares a glimpse into a world of toxic masculinity and coercive control, one in which the tools are shame and fear, helped along by a media and justice system who are far from shedding sexist notions of men and women's roles in society.
Author: Monckton-Smith, Jane
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2022.
256 pages ; 20 cm

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.829 MONC - Available - 95800000198874
Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.829 MONC - Available - 95800000198556
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.829 MONC - Available - 95800000198734
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.829 MONC - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 95800000198512

Snatched : my true story of survival : trapped by a woman to be sold to men / Elizabeth Harper with Veronica Clark.

Groomed and procured by a white woman, raped by hundreds of men and labelled the 'most abused girl in Rotherham', now Elizabeth Harper is fighting for answers as to why so many people paid to protect our children simply turned a blind eye. Elizabeth not only survived four years of relentless abuse, she helped blow the lid off the Rotherham grooming scandal - one of the largest child sexual exploitation cover-ups this country has ever seen. Now she tells her story in full.
Author: Harper, Elizabeth
Published: London : HarperElement, 2022.
310 pages ; 20 cm

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.883 HARP - Available - 95800000201141
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Any girl : an Irish memoir of sexual exploitation and recovery / Mia Döring.

From the outside looking in, the young life of Mia Döring seemed unremarkable, as she pursued her studies at a prominent Dublin art college, immersed in a vibrant social scene. Unbeknownst to those around her, however, Mia's life was anything but ordinary. At age 16, she had been sexually exploited by an older man, which carved a direct path into the Irish sex trade, where she remained for several years until finally leaving it behind over a decade ago, at age 24. In her memoir Mia, a psychotherapist specialising in sexual trauma, excavates her difficult history as she sets about integrating her past with her present-day life. Along the way, she presents an ardent and intelligent refutation of a culture that affirms and applauds the industrialised sexual violation of women and girls, ultimately offering something more precious - a way forward for society bedded in true understanding.
Author: Döring, Mia
Published: Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2022.
320 pages ; 24 cm

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.76 DORI - Available - 95800000197442
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Enough : the violence against women and how to end it / Harriet Johnson.

This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women - and the failures of the criminal justice system to respond. From barrister Harriet Johnson, 'Enough' lays bare the appalling status quo of abuse against women in our society, offering an irrefutable case for why change is needed in policing and justice. Most vitally, it also gives a manifesto for how to get there. With expertise, clear-sightedness and appropriate fury, this book helps us see where women are suffering - from homicide to domestic abuse to street harassment. It exposes the ways the criminal justice system lets women down - from officers failing to properly investigate to a lack of consequences when police behaviour is unacceptable, to backlogged courts and the realities of convincing a jury.
Author: Johnson, Harriet
Published: London : William Collins, 2022.
96 pages ; 21 cm

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.88 JOHN - Available - 95800000201824
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Millennial black / Sophie Williams.

From tips on setting boundaries, and avoiding the race pay gap, through advice on building your own 'lady gang', establishing your value and being able to negotiate, to tackling the serious issues of workplace sexual harassment and racist abuse, this is a comprehensive guide to building the career you want and being recognised in the workplace. It also offers implementable guidance for employers and business owners who are tackling the essential task of building and retaining inclusive and diverse offices, as well as looking to be effective allies and leaders in the future of inclusive working.
Author: Williams, Sophie
Published: London : Mira, 2022.
368 pages ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 650.108 WILL - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 95800000201693

Hunting Ghislaine / John Sweeney.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who suffered a tragedy, the death of her father, a war hero, a philanthropist, a good man, in suspicious circumstances. She fled to New York where she made a new life with a brilliant mathematician. Her name is Ghislaine Maxwell and her lover was Jeffrey Epstein. Through Jeffrey, and her family name, Ghislaine became friends with some of the most powerful people on earth, ex-President Bill Clinton and President-to-be Donald Trump and the second son of the Queen of England, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. But this is no fairy tale. 'Hunting Ghislaine' sets out the other side of the story, and it's one of the darkest you will ever read.
Author: Sweeney, John, 1958-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.
320 pages ; 24 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 364.153 SWEE - Available - 95800000218182
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 364.153 SWEE - Available - 95800000218056

Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement / Tarana Burke.

From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation.
Author: Burke, Tarana
Published: London : Headline, 2022.
288 pages ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 305.42 BURK - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 95800000201680

Don't speak [text(large print)] / A.J. Park.

DS Amelie Davis is utterly devoted to her husband, Edward. Having suffered in silence through years of abuse at the hands of her father, she thought she would never trust another man. Then Edward came along and proved her wrong. But in the middle of the night, Amelie receives a phone call from an unknown number. The voice at the other end asks: Do you really think you know your husband? Struggling to separate her past trauma from a case at work in which three teenage girls have been found murdered, and watching her husband's every move with increasing paranoia, Amelia grapples with the fear that her husband is not the man she thought she knew at all. In fact, he might just be the man she's been hunting. But what do you do when the man you love might be a killer? Turn him in? Or help him hide.
Author: Park, A. J.
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Large Print Books, 2022.
426 pages (large print)

Dedworth Community Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:Large print - Large Print - Available - 95800000020919

Trapped : neglected, abused, betrayed / Della Wright with Linda Watson-Brown.

Della Wright is a campaigner for the rights of abuse victims after suffering a lifetime of betrayal. Left alone at home for the first time at only two years old by those tasked with her care, Della was let down first by social services. When known paedophile Terry Price entered her life when she was six, moving into her home, he would groom and sexually abuse her for the next five years. Even the sight of a little girl going to his probation meetings wasn't enough to make the authorities act. After a lifetime of violent relationships and mental health problems, Della eventually managed to put her childhood abuser behind bars for 22 years, a decade after first going to the police. He had changed his name multiple times to evade detection for his many crimes. As an ambassador for the Safeguarding Alliance, Della now campaigns to ensure offenders cannot slip through the net by giving themselves new identities.
Author: Wright, Della
Published: London : JB, 2022.
x, 309 pages : 1 illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.76 WRIG - Available - 95800000214828

Black and blue [sound recording] / Parm Sandhu.

In an enthralling narrative, Parm Sandhu chronicles her journey from life in 1960s Birmingham as the fourth child of immigrants from the Punjab to the senior ranks of the Met. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage aged just 16, Parm eventually picked up her newborn son and escaped to London. After several years working in the DHSS, she joined the Met as a constable. In a police career lasting 30 years, she worked in everything from crime prevention to counter-terrorism, however, her time on the force was chequered throughout with incidents of racial and gender discrimination, and she eventually found herself facing a spurious charge of gross misconduct. In 'Black and Blue' Parm tells her shocking story and of her quest for justice in her police work and for herself. It is a story that cannot fail to inspire anyone who has experienced prejudice or abuse of any kind.
Author: Sandhu, Parm
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2021.
7 CDs (563 min.) : digital, stereo

Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Spoken word cds:Afic 7+ - Available - 95800000020879

When home is not safe : writings on domestic verbal, emotional and physical abuse / edited by Judith Skillman, Linera Lucas.

Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poetry, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage on the page, set this anthology apart from self-help manuals and academic treatises on domestic violence.
Published: Jefferson : Exposit Books, 2021.
135 pages ; 23 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.829 SKIL - Available - 95800000001661

Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / Beth Macy.

In this work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicentre of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. At the heart of the story is a large corporation, Purdue - whose owners are celebrated for their sponsorship of art galleries and museums - that targeted areas of the country already awash in painkillers and encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin, a highly addictive drug. Evidence of its capacity to enslave its users was suppressed. Macy tries to answer a grieving mother's question - why her only son died - and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need.
Author: Macy, Beth
Published: London : Apollo, 2021.
416 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.293 MACY - Available - 95800000190576

A sister's shame : two little girls trapped in a cycle of abuse and neglect / Maggie Hartley.

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear from the moment she sets eyes on them four-year-old Bo and seven-year-old Billy have clearly been subjected to unimaginable neglect, and it takes all of Maggie's skills as a foster carer to try to connect with the volatile little girls, who seem far younger than their years. Over time, the little girls slowly emerge from their shells, and Maggie begins the difficult task of trying to gain their trust. But as time goes on, it becomes clear that there is something much darker going on, something that will call into question everything Maggie has ever learned in all her years as a foster carer.
Author: Hartley, Maggie
Published: London : Seven Dials, 2021.
viii, 228 pages ; 20 cm

Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.733 HART - Available - 95800000174904

In Control [electronic resource] : Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder / Jane Monckton Smith

'Groundbreaking' OBSERVER 'Blows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water' CAITLIN MORAN 'Offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives' INDEPENDENT Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner – and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic. For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder. Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse – while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.
Author: Smith, Jane Monckton
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
1 online resource (1 text file)
Available online: Excerpt

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The Russian affair : the true story of the couple who discovered the greatest sporting scandal / David Walsh.

Vitaliy Stepanov had been part of the Russian anti-doping squad, and during his work he had met and fallen in love with Yuliya, one of the country's most promising 800m athletes. But soon he discovered that his bride was not all she seemed - she was taking performance-enhancing drugs. It could have been the end of their relationship, but instead they decided they would reveal the scale and the scope of the corruption in Russian athletics - the bribes, the drugs, the abuse. At enormous personal risk to their marriage and even their lives, they recorded and filmed athletes and officials involved in the scandal, and then escaped to Germany to pass on their devastating evidence. Now, with David Walsh, the man who broke the Lance Armstrong story, they reveal the full truth of what went on in Russia, and the corrupt system that surrounded everything they did.
Author: Walsh, David, 1955-
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
vi, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm

Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.29 WALS - Onloan - Due: 12 May 2024 - 95800000179525

How to fix modern football / Chris Sutton.

With diving players, abusive fans, feckless agents and the dreaded VAR, football has taken a wrong turn. Now, Chris Sutton, the nation's most forthright football pundit, takes an unaltered look at 25 aspects of the modern game that need to be changed right away - and offers practical and, at times, controversial solutions. From the standard of referees to the lunacy of the managerial merry-go-round, from shameful racist abuse to exploitative ticket prices and the shocking treatments of ex-players with dementia, 'How to Fix Modern Football' leaves no stone unturned.
Author: Sutton, Chris, 1973-
Published: London : Monoray, 2021.
x, 290 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 796.334 SUTT - Available - 95800000176229

Say why to drugs : everything you need to know about the drugs we take and why we get high / Dr Suzi Gage.

Drugs. We've all done them. Whether it's a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, a cigarette or a sleeping pill. But how well do we understand the effects of the drugs we take - legal or illegal? 'Say Why to Drugs' investigates the science behind recreational drugs - debunking common myths and misconceptions, as well as containing the most recent scientific research. Looking at a range of drugs, this book provides a clear understanding of how drugs work and what they're really doing to your mind and body.
Author: Gage, Suzi
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.
352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 615.1 GAGE - Available - 95800000177637

Junk / Melvin Burgess.

Gemma runs away from home to join her boyfriend Tar in London. Soon they find themselves hooked on heroin and Gemma is forced into prostitution to pay for the drug.
Author: Burgess, Melvin
25th anniversary edition / introduction by Malorie Blackman.
Published: London : Andersen Press, 2021.
341 pages ; 20 cm

Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Teenage fiction:14+ - Available - 95800000192026

Violeta among the stars / Dulce Maria Cardoso ; translated by Angel Gurria-Quintana.

Desperate and drunk, Violeta overturns her car on a lonely stretch of late-night motorway. As she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life quite literally flashes before her eyes. Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her troubled relationship with her daughter who is everything to her grandparents that Violeta never could be; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the terrible service station cafes, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors. Suspended in this eternity, Violeta examines her life and what it consists of: the thousand daily grievances that add up to a frustrated, thwarted life.
Author: Cardoso, Dulce Maria, 1964-
Published: London : MacLehose Press, 2021.
320 pages ; 23 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Available - 95800000178288

My brother / Karin Smirnoff.

Jana is returning to see her twin brother Bror, still living in the small family farmhouse. It's decrepit and crumbling, and Bror is determinedly drinking himself to an early grave. They're both damaged by horrific childhood experiences, buried deep in the past, but Jana cannot keep running. Karin Smirnoff's 'My Brother' is a story steeped in darkness and violence about abuse, love, complicity and coming to terms with the past.
Author: Smirnoff, Karin, 1964-
Published: London : Pushkin Press, 2021.
224 pages ; 22 cm

Eton Wick Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Available - 95800000171299
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Above water / Trish Kearney.

In 2019, in the aftermath of her mother's death, Trish Kearney wrote the story that had burned inside her for decades - but which she could not until then commit to paper. In her moving memoir, Trish writes about the child she once was, a great Irish Olympic hope, growing up in a happy family who nurtured her talent - only to have her potential destroyed by years of abuse by her coach, a man trusted by her family. She describes how suppressed memories of those torturous times resurfaced as a young mother, and the day her life changed when a letter from former team-mate and friend Gary O'Toole came through the post, asking an unspoken question which paved the way for Gibney being publicly exposed. Trish was one of the six swimmers who charged the top Irish swim coach with sexual abuse offences in 1992.
Author: Kearney, Trish
Published: Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2021.
320 pages ; 24 cm

Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 362.764 KEAR - Available - 95800000169814

Cockfight / María Fernanda Ampuero ; translated by Frances Riddle.

In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family's maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped re-enacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, 'Cockfight' explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.
Author: Ampuero, María Fernanda
Published: London : Influx Press, 2021.
1 volume ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Available - 95800000167714
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The hidden wife [text(large print)] / Joanna Rees.

Paris, 1928. Having fled London and been on the run around Europe, Vita Casey has established a new life for herself, keeping a low profile as a dresser at a cabaret hall where Nancy is part of the risqué dance troupe. It's a vibrant world of wild parties, drugs and jazz music. But despite the fun, hedonistic lifestyle they lead, Vita longs for a proper career and to re-kindle her dream of designing lingerie. When an opportunity to work for famous couturier Jenny Sacerdote presents itself, Vita grabs it with both hands and is soon exposed to an altogether different side of Paris society. Before long, romance blossoms in the unlikeliest of places. However, left to her own devices, Nancy spirals into danger and drug abuse and Vita has to save her friend.
Author: Rees, Joanna
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Large Print Books, 2021.
552 pages (large print)

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Skelton's guide to domestic poisons [text(large print)] / David Stafford.

Unassuming Yorkshireman, Arthur Skelton, is one of the most celebrated and recognisable barristers in the land. His success in the high-profile Dryden case - 'the scandal of 1929' - catapulted him to the front pages of the national newspapers. His services are now much in demand and, after careful consideration, he agrees to defend Mary Dutton. Dubbed 'The Collingford Poisoner' by the press, Mary is accused of poisoning her husband after years of abuse. Together with his trusted assistant, Skelton digs deeper and discovers that secrets and lies run deep in the Dutton family and all is not as it appears.
Author: Stafford, David, 1949-
Published: Leicester : Charnwood, 2021.
372 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

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