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Look What You Made Me Do
- A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
- Narrated by: Helen Walmsley-Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
For more than two years, BBC Radio 4's The Archers ran a disturbing storyline centred on Helen Tichener's abuse at the hands of her husband Rob. Not the kind of abuse that leaves a bruise, but the sort of coercive control that breaks your spirit and makes it almost impossible to walk away.
As she listened to the unfolding story, Helen Walmsley-Johnson was forced to confront her own agonising past. Helen's first husband controlled her life, from the people she saw to what was in her bank account. He alienated her from friends and family, and even from their three daughters. Eventually, he threw her out and she painfully began to rebuild her life.
Then, divorced and in her early 40s, she met Franc. Kind, charming, considerate Franc. For 10 years she would be in his thrall, even when he too was telling her what to wear, what to eat, even what to think.
Look What You Made Me Do is her candid and utterly gripping memoir of how she was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognising, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. It is also an inspirational account of how one woman found the courage to walk away.
Jacket photograph © Reilika Landen / Arcangel
Author photograph © Martin Argles
Design: Ami Smithson, Pan Macmillan Art Department
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- Mikey
- 14-03-18
Wow. This took real bravery and I admire that
I have nothing but admiration for Helen after having read this inspirational and moving account of her life, more specifically the time she spent in an unhealthy and tormenting relationship with someone who used his intelligence and manipulation tin equal measure.
All women who read this book will understand the courage it must have taken the author to not only find the strength to walk away from such a nightmarish existence, but to then go on and write about it in such a moving an deeply personal way. Being a man, I can say this book touched me, but I can only imagine that women who have also suffered the cruelty of psychological and manipulative abuse the world over, would find this book inspirational.
I truly commend and respect you Helen. Your bravery saved not only you, but now has the potential to help women the world over. Perhaps this book may be enough to nudge said women just that bit further into finding strength and finally making the decision to get out, my only hope is that it will.
Narration was monotonous. I didn't want to make a big thing out of it because this audiobook was about a lot more than 'performance' for me.
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- Malcolm Mills
- 23-02-22
Brilliant
This was a very sad story told with great sensitivity. It was so beautifully read.
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- Josie
- 22-03-20
A must read/listen for all
After years of abuse from family then, husband and back to family. I am under going self healing and listening to this book reaffirms what I have been through and many others.
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- Jett
- 16-09-19
An Insightful truth
Coercive control at its worst. Relationship is well documented...
The harm is clear.
Good examples of the lack of support from police & the courts...
Recommendations for further reading included.
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- Lou W
- 15-02-22
Coercive control from a true life account.
if you ever wondered about why women (mainly) stay in abusive relationships some of the answers are found here. The writer questions whether we give out victim pheromones and this is a question I have pondered at times. Difficult to say I 'enjoyed' it, but it did keep my interest piqued. Glad to hear she got away. So many don't.
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- Miss K L Simpson
- 16-09-20
Absolutely brilliant x
This book has blown me away. It’s utterly brilliant. Best read in a very long time. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did x
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- Yoyo
- 22-12-21
The resolution is real
Oh my god. I don’t think I could listen to more than 15 mins of this at any time without welling up and remembering, feeling those feelings of what Helen, I went through.
An amazing eye opener.
Thank you Helen for sharing x
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- matriarch
- 28-03-19
Brave Lady
Very well written and having been read by the author made it so real. She is a very brave lady and I'm glad she has found peace in her life. Listening to this has made me realise what a wonderful and caring husband I have had for almost 55 years.
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- Kenzel
- 01-07-21
Gut wrenching and heart warming at the same time
Thank you for sharing your story Helen. You share it with such disarming honest and vulnerability.
As a man I have realised that the scars that I've inadvertently left and that I've personally experienced are real.
I am Helen and I am Frank.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-06-21
F off Frank
loved it, couldnt stop listening, excellent narrator and I recommend any girl or woman read
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