How I finally conquered my shame & darkness and left my violent abuser
“She is taken prisoner gradually by courtship…it is love that first binds her to her abuser, and it’s love that makes her forgive him.”
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“She is taken prisoner gradually by courtship…it is love that first binds her to her abuser, and it’s love that makes her forgive him.”
The event at Tokai Library on Saturday will give readers the chance to meet their favorite local authors.
The book is a gripping read about relational trauma, of what happens to the sense of self when living with physical and psychological violence over time.
The event has a very rich and full programme, spread across seven venues at Kingsmead College.
The title of Cathy Park Kelly’s memoir, Boiling Frog Slowly, borrows from the urban legend that when a frog is placed in water that is then gradually heated up, it will boil to death because it can’t detect the increasing heat until it is too late to get out.