If You Love Me: True love. True terror. True story.
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0008252513 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorAlice Keale is 34 and lives in London, where she is working hard to establish herself in a new career, while also slowly rebuilding all the other aspects of the life she lost after she met and fell in love with the man of her dreams.
If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again.Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe were talking about getting married and spending the rest of their lives with each other. And soon the violence and abuse began.As she attempted to prove to Joe that he really was her world, Alice gave up everything that mattered to her, including her family, her friends and her job. But still it wasn’t enough.Then the ‘challenges’ started, and finally Alice dared to hope that this time, maybe this time, Joe might just believe she loved him …. He ignored Alice’s explanations and desperate pleas. Everything about Joe seemed perfect, and Alice was the happiest she’d ever been.Then one day Joe saw a message on her phone from an old love, and that changed everything. 'You said I was the
Alice Keale is 34 and lives in London, where she is working hard to establish herself in a new career, while also slowly rebuilding all the other aspects of the life she lost after she met and fell in love with the man of her dreams.
Almost had to DNF this VERY dark tale several times blondewriter99 This is some of the darkest, sickest, most twisted crap I've ever read - and I've read a book about a cannibal. Alice Keale seems a fairly normal Londoner who has a good job, money in the bank, friends but apparently a crippling and dangerous sense of low self esteem. At least in the first half of the book, she doesn't explain this. What was her upbringing like? We don't know. So it's fairly baffling when Alice starts off a whirlwind relationship with a superior at work that within weeks descends into horrific abuse and she simply refuses to see it as abuse. The . Too soon momtwogo This was a scary and true tale of domestic violence, one that Alice should perhaps have waited to tell until she was healed. At the conclusion of the book, its obvious that her self-esteem is still so low that she could easily find herself in another situation like this. She knew her tormenter for only a few wwwks before the abuse started, yet still at the conclusion of the book, she sees herself as having been in love with him. It's almost like she doesn't see that what she felt in those first few weeks was lust, excitement not love. Furthermore, she still seeks. If Pamela I thought this book was very well written, interesting, but also frustrating given the fact that Alice being a smart, educated, successful woman couldn't readily identify Joe's pathology from the onset.