Helen Fields, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/helenfields/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:49:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing Coercive Control Into Fiction (Very, Very Carefully) https://booksbywomen.org/writing-coercive-control-into-fiction-very-very-carefully/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-coercive-control-into-fiction-very-very-carefully/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:23:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27512 This September sees the paperback publication of my first legal thriller, Degrees of Guilt, under the pen name HS Chandler. It was difficult to write for a number of reasons, but the most immediate of them was having proper consideration for the real victims of coercive control. This year has seen the overturning of a […]

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