'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.''You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again.Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe were talking about getting married and spending the rest of their lives with each other. Everything about Joe seemed perfect, and Alice was the happiest she’d ever been.Then one day Joe saw a message on her phone from an old love, and that changed everything. He ignored Alice’s explanations and desperate pleas. And soon the violence and abuse began.As she attempted to prove to Joe that he really was her world, Alice gave up everything that mattered to her, including her family, her friends and her job. But still it wasn’t enough.Then the ‘challenges’ started, and finally Alice dared to hope that this time, maybe this time, Joe might just believe she loved him …Alice Keale is 34 and lives in London, where she is working hard to establish herself in a new career, while also slowly rebuilding all the other aspects of the life she lost after she met and fell in love with the man of her dreams.- On the back of Before I go to Sleep, The Book of You, and similar domestic noir thrillers, including nonfiction Who Are You? – this is the true story of a woman trapped in an abusive relationship with a charismatic and controlling man.- Will attract major PR with its very current themes of emotional abuse and controlling behaviour in the name of love.- Written with well-known ghostwriter, Jane Smith, who co-wrote Trafficked (200k) and Bought and Sold (35k).
Publicat de: HarperCollins Publishers