Things Bad Begun - Emily Fairfax
Emily Fairfax is a retired teacher, born, raised and educated in Lancashire, where she gained her degree in English in the 1980s. Her long and happy career was spent teaching English Language and Literature to teenagers in several secondary schools. Things Bad Begun is her chilling debut novel, an unsettling domestic noir story which is all the more shocking for being based on Emily's own life experiences. With the disturbing events of her first marriage now firmly in the past, Emily is happily remarried with the family she longed for, still living in north west England.
GENRE: Domestic Noir
Blurb:
A gripping and harrowing tale of survival and desperation, Things Bad Begun, follows Elaine as she flees for her life after a brutal attack by her husband, Fraser. With vivid and visceral descriptions, the author takes you on a heart-pounding journey through the night, as Elaine makes her escape, traumatised by the violence she has just experienced and haunted by memories of the past. As she grapples with her injuries, she recalls the early years of her doomed relationship with Fraser.
