Sick Love. How to Stop Domestic Violence and Free Yourself from the Power of an Abuser

• Winner of the Stella Prize 2020.
• Best Non-Fiction Book in Australia 2019.
• Finalist for the Walkley Book Award 2019.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jess Hill is a journalist who has been researching the topic of domestic violence since 2014. She previously worked as a producer at ABC Radio and a correspondent for The Global Mail in the Middle East.
The American magazine Foreign Policy included her in the Top 100 Most Influential Women - Twitter Bloggers. Her articles on domestic violence have received the Walkley Foundation Journalism Award twice, once from the international human rights organization Amnesty International, and three times from the Australian human rights organization Our Watch.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In 2017, there were 87,000 recorded murders of women worldwide, more than a third of which (30,000) were killed by a sexual partner, and in another 20,000 cases, the murderer was a relative. About 40% of all murders of women in Russia are committed by partners.
But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn't she leave? When we should ask: why did he do this?
In this masterfully written work, Jess Hill boldly addresses uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers but fails to protect their victims, consistently dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming, provides real stories of survivors, and shows ways out of the crisis.

• Types of Aggressors: How to Recognize and Resist.
• Why All Tyrants Act According to the Same Pattern, Despite Cultural, Racial, and Other Differences.
• How to Become a Victim of Violence.
• What Do Patriarchy and the Porn Industry Have to Do with It.
• Why Women Endure for So Long and Don't Leave.
• What Female Violence Looks Like.