Tina Nash

This is an incredibly inarticulate account of a woman who prioritised her base needs in order to maintain a sexual relationship with a man who beat her savagely and who reconciled with him repeatedly after every attack. What is most shocking about this story is the fact that this woman breached bail conditions which were constructed to protect her and her two vulnerable children and continued to expose them to this man’s physical and emotional abuse. I was alarmed that the social work department did not remove the children at the earliest opportunity as this woman was evidently incapable of protecting them from the impact of abuse. She was eventually blinded by her boyfriend in a prolonged attack however I failed to garner any sympathy for this self-indulgent narcissistic woman who seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time throwing her arms in the air, which is what I ended up doing with the book once I'd finally finished it.… (més)