Lover, Husband, Father, Monster: Book 1, Her Story

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  • Elsie
  • and
  • Graeme
  • Johnstone’s
  • powerful
  • two-part
  • story
  • traces
  • the
  • fragmentation
  • of
  • a
  • well-intentioned
  • marriage
  • through
  • to
  • its
  • irretrievable
  • breakdown
  • and
  • a
  • chilling
  • finale
  • that
  • stays
  • with
  • the
  • reader
  • long
  • after
  • the
  • final
  • page
  • is
  • turned. Set
  • in
  • Ireland
  • and
  • told
  • in
  • two
  • voices
  • Her
  • Story
  • and
  • His
  • Story
  • it
  • tells
  • of
  • Stuart
  • and
  • Jennifer,
  • meeting
  • at
  • a
  • time
  • when
  • they
  • both
  • feel
  • marriage
  • and
  • parenthood
  • has
  • passed
  • them
  • by.
  • He
  • is
  • a
  • reliable
  • insurance
  • salesman
  • lacking
  • confidence
  • with
  • women.
  • She
  • is
  • a
  • bright,
  • pretty
  • lawyer,
  • left
  • emotionally
  • scarred
  • by
  • her
  • first
  • boyfriend. They
  • have
  • three
  • children
  • and
  • appear
  • to
  • be
  • a
  • happy
  • family.
  • But
  • things
  • are
  • not
  • as
  • they
  • seem.
  • Stuart
  • appoints
  • himself
  • as
  • the
  • bullying
  • ‘captain
  • of
  • the
  • ship’
  • whose
  • orders
  • must
  • always
  • be
  • obeyed.
  • A
  • scared,
  • brow-beaten
  • Jennifer
  • finds
  • comfort
  • amongst
  • her
  • internet
  • friends.
  • An
  • innocent
  • Facebook
  • contact
  • with
  • her
  • first
  • lover,
  • Tommy,
  • leads
  • to
  • cybersex,
  • romance
  • and
  • infidelity. Jennifer
  • is
  • to
  • learn
  • that
  • breaking
  • free
  • from
  • a
  • controlling
  • husband
  • will
  • be
  • more
  • painful
  • than
  • she
  • could
  • ever
  • have
  • imagined.
  • Stuart
  • determines
  • to
  • hurt
  • his
  • wife
  • in
  • a
  • way
  • she
  • will
  • never
  • forget.
  • And
  • he does.
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