What Doesn’t Kill Us. Ajay Close in conversation with Hannah Trevarthen

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A killer stalks the streets of Leeds. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But women are fighting back. It’s the eve of the 1980s, and PC Liz Seeley joins the squad investigating the murders. With a violent boyfriend at home and male chauvinist pigs at work, she is drawn to a feminist collective led by the militant and uncompromising Rowena. There she meets Charmaine – young, Black, artistic, and fighting discrimination on two fronts. As the list of victims grows and bungling police fail to catch the killer, women are too terrified to go out after dark. Liz is torn between loyalty to them and her duty as a police officer. Action-packed and darkly funny, prize-winning novel What Doesn’t Kill Us reveals just how much the world has changed since the 1970s – and how much it hasn’t. *Please detail any accessibility requirements, including BSL requests, on your booking form.