Intimate Instructions

A young woman and her children are impoverished and marginalised by her powerful family to mind-bending breaking point. There appears to be no conspicuous reasons for their ostracism, other than her total refusal to comply with what her family say are their reasonable wishes, according to relevant public authorities. Those public bodies then also marginalise her, as her powerful husband, who raped and assaulted her, attempts to gain sole custody of the children.

It's a novel that tells the frightening story of her struggle to break free from the impoverishment and resulting public body marginalisation, as she eventually finds the only qualified person willing to help her. They uncover admissible evidence of maladministration, deceit, extortion, assaults and rapes, as well as possible murder.