64. One of The Good Guys | Araminta Hall
this is what happens when women have had enough
If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night?
This is the January Bookclub pick for The Shift with Sam Baker. If you’re quick you can join in the conversation with author Araminta Hall who will be joining live on Tuesday 30th January at 7pm GMT.
Friends,
This is a PAGE TURNER - I devoured her in 3 days!
One of the Good Guys asks the very pertinent question – if so many men claim to be “one of the good guys”, why are so many women still afraid?
Cole is the perfect husband: a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel’s career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.
So when Mel leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.
Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie.
Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby cliff. It’s an undeniably scary location, but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them.
As their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, it soon becomes clear that they don’t know each other very well at all.
This is what happens when women have had enough.
'One of the most daring and intriguing writers working today' – Gillian Flynn
'I devoured this book' – Lisa Taddeo
On a serious note - how to recognise domestic abuse:
Does your partner, ex-partner or someone you live with:
cut you off from family and friends and intentionally isolate you?
bully, threaten, or control you?
take control of your finances?
monitor or limit your use of technology?
physically and/or sexually abuse you?
Domestic abuse is not always physical violence. It can also include:
coercive control and ‘gaslighting’
economic abuse
online abuse
threats and intimidation
emotional abuse
sexual abuse
also related:
how gina martin changed uk law on up-skirting
how to identify domestic abuse — need to talk now? call refuge on 0808 2000 247
a playlist: music to run from the police to (if you’re a woman in the uk)
