Blood Vows
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In 1970, a pretty young woman called Helen Cummings married a handsome doctor called Stuart Wynter. But instead of being a marriage made in heaven, it was the beginning of a hellish existence of spiralling abuse that ended six years later when she escaped with her two young children. Except it wasn't the end at all because Dr Wynter remarried - and this woman and her child weren't able to escape, and Helen wasn't able to help.
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In this brave memoir, Helen Cummings relates an idyllic childhood growing up in 1960s Australia and looks back on a marriage that nearly killed her and her children. Nowadays Helen is 'the mother of a famous daughter and the daughter of a famous mother', but she also had to come to terms with being the former wife of a murderer, and who was powerless to help his victims.
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