This is How I Will Strangle You by Gideon Haigh (9781925927207)

Description - This is How I Will Strangle You by Gideon Haigh

‘I’m just a prisoner of my past. I don’t want to be a prisoner any
more.’

Natasa Christidou’s earliest memory is of her father masturbating over her childhood bed. She was two. It was the start of a lifetime’s
physical abuse and psychological torture, which included long phases of sex slavery and sex work, institutional neglect and brutal
imprisonment.

Aged fifty, Natasa decided to tell her story. Gideon Haigh listened. The result is a compelling work of investigation and reportage of the silent crime of incest – usually so confronting, so taboo, that we
prefer to look away, because of the social sanctity of ‘the family’.

Today, Natasa lives in a tiny unit in Morwell. She is agoraphobic, vision and hearing impaired, stricken with incontinence, insomnia, panic attacks and back pain as a result of her experiences. Only with the help of a dedicated group of care workers, counsellors and lawyers has she made it so far. She is also a warm, gentle and funny
woman whose survival testifies to the resilience of the human spirit.

This Is How I Will Strangle You takes the reader behind the headlines and hysteria around child sex abuse, and reinforces an uncomfortable truth: that women and children are sometimes safer on the street than in their own homes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in London, raised in Geelong, resident in Melbourne, Gideon Haigh has been a journalist since 1984, contributed to more than 100 newspapers and magazines, written thirty-two books and edited seven others. He has been a regular panellist on the ABC’s Offsiders since 2005, and reported the 2017-18 Ashes for The Australian and The
Times. He is the author of An Eye on Cricket (2017), Shadows on the Pitch
(2018) and The Standard Bearers (2019).

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