"It was just a slap that first time. Just a slap ... He never hit me on
the face again. He didn't want any marks to be seen. Everything had to
remain perfect on the outside." Told in the first person, in the style
of a conversational diary or letter, Isabel describes the lengths she
has to go in escaping her abusive husband, including a death - but
whose? Flashbacks tell the story of how they first met, moved in
together, married. Only the love of her eccentric best friend Anna can
save her. Pre-publication review: "Right to Possession portrays very
well how much domestic abuse is conflictingly monotonous, the
predictability and intensity of the love, then violence, obvious to all
but the victim. The terrible destructiveness of domestic abuse to such a
wide circle of people, not just the protagonists was palpable, as was
the desperate difficulty for victims to escape the circle of abuse, and
also how conflicted and imprisoned the abuser is within themselves ....
[in the later part] I was so glued to the book that I actually stayed
up until well gone 1am one night to find out what happened and finish
the book!" Originally written some years ago, in 2021 following
heightened awareness about violence against women, and the huge rise in
domestic abuse and stalking, Right to Possession really comes into its
own. A perfectly timed release of this death with a twist!
