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The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (ISBN 0-9751075-1-8) is Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first memoir and fourth book. The narrative details her response to the death of her ex-fiancé, the notorious American-born British GQ editor Michael VerMeulen, and to her younger brother Gianluca's 2001 suicide, and led to Gambotto-Burke being featured on the cover of The Weekend Australian review section.
The book begins with an account of Molly’s suicide. After reading that terrible morning of Molly’s choice, the reader is compelled to race through the rest of Butler’s memoir at the same ...
Before she died, Chloe reported Masterton for domestic abuse and gave a two-hour video submission to police, which led to the 26-year-old’s conviction for coercive and controlling behaviour.
She wrote another memoir, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, published in 2011, and Erica Jong has written "Linda Sexton’s beautiful book is a cry for health and sanity. It will bring hope and understanding because it explains the way suicide blights families from generation to generation." [citation needed]
Families and How to Survive Them is a bestselling self-help book co-authored by the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Robin Skynner and the comedian John Cleese. It was first published in 1983, and is illustrated throughout by the cartoonist J. B. Handelsman. The book takes the form of a series of dialogues between Skynner, playing the role of ...
The book contains numerous stories of disturbed families, alongside a discussion of the reasons why the modern state care-taking agencies are largely ineffective. Promotional events for the book were met with protest, [ 34 ] and Pizzey reports that she herself and co-author Jeff Shapiro needed police protection during the promotional events for ...
She read the Colleen Hoover book, and as a domestic violence survivor, she felt the novel showed an accurate and unvarnished side of abuse and hoped the film would do the same. Raymond believes it ...
Schechter was originally from St. Louis, Missouri, [1] [5] where she earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 1975. She earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and became director of women's services at a YWCA in Chicago, through which she began her work with domestic violence, also helping to ...