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Pain. Purpose. Persistence. These three words describe the upbringing of Jerome McGee Jr., a once broken man on a journey to healing. After four decades of being overlooked, mistreated, and misunderstood, he's finally ready to tell his story, and he's starting from the beginning. Growing up as a young boy in Velma, Louisiana, Jerome learned the importance of hard work early on. While most children dreamed of becoming doctors, lawyers, teachers, and even astronauts, Jerome remained focused on one goal in particular: doing whatever it took to survive.

When police are called to a local supermarket late one evening, they find an angry shopkeeper and a silent young woman. It's the third time 24-year-old Zoe has been caught stealing in the past few days. Eyes filled with panic, Zoe has been hiding bread, milk, Calpol and nappies under her coat. As police officers break down the door of Zoe's flat they find seven-year-old Coco and two-year-old Lola, home alone, huddled on the floor in a freezing cold bedroom, crying out for their mummy.

In this vivid and essential work of historical non-fiction, Kate Morgan explores the legal campaigns, test cases and individual injustices of the Victorian and Edwardian eras which fundamentally re-shaped the status of women under British law. These are seen through the untold stories of women whose cases became cornerstones of our modern legal system and shine a light on the historical inequalities of the law.

I am happy to say that I am no longer a victim, but a true survivor of narcissistic and emotional abuse. Let me start by saying that walking away from my toxic 30-year relationship with my now ex-husband was one of the hardest things I had to do. The result of walking away turned out to be the best thing I've ever done. I wish there had been a book like this that told me how to recognize narcissists and emotional abusers back when I met my ex-husband 30 years ago. What I know now about toxic people and emotional abuse may have saved my life.