What Doesn't Kill Us

Thanks to Saraband for sending me an early copy of this book to review! What Doesn’t Kill Us is set in Leeds at the end of the 1970s as a killer stalks the streets and targets sex workers and women who he finds walking alone at night. Whilst not a complete retelling, this aspect of the book is partly......more

Over the past year or so, I've been searching for any fiction at all that deals with the WLM or with British second-wave feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. It seems like such a rich subject for historical novelists, and yet I found nothing that puts the WLM centre-stage (it's mentioned in Bernardine E......more

Misogyny is alive and well on the cusp of the 1980s - in the streets of Leeds where a serial killer stalks, and in the police force, where women are routinely derided or patronized. PC Liz Sealey knows all about it, because she is on the frontline - on all fronts. Facing domestic abuse at home and d......more

Ok . I lived in Leeds in the late 70s and early 80s so know the situation with the Yorkshire ripper well. This book describes that period , the circumstances and women's lives at that time well. There are a lot of characters and it did take me a while to get around who they all are. The book is fair......more

A really good book - it transported me back to the North of England in the late 1970s, where I had lived in the early 1970s and returned to in the early 1980s. Ajay Close’s immaculate research captures the endemic culture of misogyny, chauvinism and the instinctive growth of feminism in response to......more