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Webchat about emotional and domestic abuse with author and journalist, Colette Snowden, Monday 28 November, 9-10pm

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RachelMumsnet · 22/11/2016 17:38

Author and journalist Colette Snowden is joining us for a webchat on Monday 28 November, where she will be talking about her own experiences of emotional and psychological abuse and answering your questions.

Earlier this year when The Archers' storyline on domestic abuse became a topic of much discussion on Mumsnet, Colette wrote a guest blog describing the difficulty she had in escaping an abusive relationship, which provoked much discussion. Last month we ran a giveaway of her novel, The Secret to Not Drowning, the story of a woman trapped in an abusive relationship - and readers have been sharing their thoughts on this compelling and powerful novel.

Please do join Colette and put your questions to her on Monday 28th November, between 9 and 10pm. If you can't make that time, post your question on this thread in advance.

UPDATE: We'll be raising money this Christmas for victims of domestic violence - we'll announce more soon, but do keep an eye out this December. We'll be shouting about it on the boards and we'll match-fund donations to the charities up to a total of £10k. Xmas Smile

Webchat about emotional and domestic abuse with author and journalist, Colette Snowden, Monday 28 November, 9-10pm
Webchat about emotional and domestic abuse with author and journalist, Colette Snowden, Monday 28 November, 9-10pm

RachelMumsnet · 28/11/2016 20:58

A warm welcome to Colette Snowden, our webchat guest this evening. Colette, first of all can we say congratulations on your brilliant novel, The Secret to Not Drowning. We're so pleased we were able to share copies with Mumsnetters last month as the comments and reviews they posted up after reading the book show they found it to be as powerful, enlightening and compelling as we did.

There's already a number of questions in so without further delay, over to you....

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 28/11/2016 21:08

Hi Colette
Thanks for coming on MN - afraid I've not yet had a chance to properly read through your book (more children than hands and DH out of the country) but out of interest are/were you a listener of TA? if so, what did you make of the Helen storyline?

RachelMumsnet · 28/11/2016 22:05

Colette has kindly agreed to stay on and finish the Qs that are up here now, although we can't take any more...

RachelMumsnet · 28/11/2016 22:14

I think there's just PresidentOliviaMumsnet's question left further up the thread - and one I'm interested to hear your response to - what did you think of The Archers storyline?

RachelMumsnet · 28/11/2016 22:28

I think that's all the questions answered.

Thank you Colette for joining us this evening and for your honest and thoughtful answers. It's brilliant that your novel has given us such an insight and we hope it goes on to help lots more people to make the move to get out of abusive relationships and also to speak out. It's also really interesting to hear your advise on how we can help family/friends who are going through this.

Thanks so much to all those who joined us today and who spoken bravely about their own relationships. We do hope you've found this webchat valuable. If you haven't already, do try and get hold of Colette's brilliant book.

As we said in the opening post, Mumsnet will be raising money this Christmas for victims of domestic violence. We'll announce more about how this will work very soon and make sure we add a link from this page.

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