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to think this couple in the guardian are strange and this was not an appropriate subject for a book?

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HildegardVonBingham · Yesterday 06:53

My jaw was on the floor as I read this. Obviously it’s awful that they were subjected to a campaign of harassment, absolutely no excuses. But I do think it’s insensitive to write a whole BOOK about it, given that the perpetrators killed themselves in a double suicide?! I also don’t know who just lends a neighbour £10k!!! Whole piece compounds my suspicion of everyone who chooses to live in the arse end of nowhere…. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/05/dream-home-turned-nightmare-in-wales-stalker-neighbours-stalked-book

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Ormally · Yesterday 14:41

Press coverage of the inquest says .. the man, an ex-Para, had been diagnosed with severe psychotic depression with a history of suicidal ideation, and that his father, who was in the SAS, had died by suicide in his childhood.

(This is part of a quote upthread with back information about the person who undertook the campaign of threats and sabotaging of the land).

I put in an admiring word for Caradog Prichard (correct spelling this time) earlier. A Mabinogion alarm bell is ringing now with parts of the tale of Branwen and the Welsh figure of Efnysien. Owen Sheers' 'White Ravens' is also a beautiful read, putting these tales into a 20-21st C setting. From his version in English (so not going on the original), Efnysien is the trickster-borderline psychopath but made that way with a permanently broken mind because of brutalisation as a soldier. This is not to excuse anyone's actions or to wax lyrical with a 'See, the source of it all is Medieval, no less, this plays out again' but there is newish literature out there that, in my opinion, takes a place on the other end of the scale from the way this is presented.

HildegardVonBingham · Yesterday 16:03

@ChequerToRed love your fence-related insights !

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Seajaye · Yesterday 19:56

Apart from the usual legal constraints around libel or official secrets etc. it seem a anyone can write a book on more or less on any topic but that doesn't mean other people have to publish it, but it or or read it. I am however astonished by what sells nowadays.

JustSawJohnny · Yesterday 21:40

Victims do not owe their abusers silence.

ForeverDelayedEpiphany · Yesterday 23:26

Having skimmed bits of it again, it does seem to have a quite peculiar, disjointed style, with some parts at odds with the way others are written.

It doesn't seem to flow that well, and in some ways, reminds me of that game called Consequences... but if everyone had written a poorly written individual paragraph of the same story.🤔😬

CamillaMcCauley · Yesterday 23:48

HildegardVonBingham · Yesterday 07:11

@LimestonePavement why would you want to re-live the trauma of that happening by writing a book about it? Obviously the man and woman who harassed them did something terrible, but I just find it weird. I also thought some of the writing had an AI tone.

In my view, a large majority of books, fiction or non-fiction, are an attempt to make sense of trauma.

Keepingthingsinteresting · Yesterday 23:58

User97463 · Yesterday 07:45

Fine not to personally like it, but bear in mind they were also defrauded out of £25k, so of they can get some of that back from a book good for them.

He should just ask the police to sell the Harley Davidson belonging to his dead neighbour that was allegedly bought with his money.

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Because that’s totally how that works…..🙄

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