Out of the Darkness - Softcover

"'As Tina bravely tries to move on with her life, she hopes her story of abuse will help other trapped women' (Daily Mirror) 'It has been a year and a half since her ex-boyfriend gouged out her eyes, holding her captive throughout the night whilst her children slept. If the horror of such an act is imaginable, then her account of the 12 hours of the groping panic that followed...is almost beyond belief. "It wasn't until I got the book back from the publishers a fortnight ago, that it made sense. It was like stepping outside the box, listening to it as if it had happened to someone else."'
(Lucy Bannerman, The Times)" --Daily Mirror

It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash's life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings and domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin, she was subjected to a barbaric and prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious and gouged out both her eyes. When he was jailed in May 2012, people struggled to comprehend the scale of the violence endured by this mother of two at her home in Cornwall. In Out of the Darkness, Tina tells her full story - of what life with a violent partner is really like and how she survived 12 hours of sustained and unimaginable violence in her own home. Learning to adjust to life without her sight, Tina speaks bravely about how her children have given her the courage to keep going, and how - step by careful step - she is learning to live again. With statistics on domestic violence rising, Tina's incredible memoir of survival makes for essential reading.