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* Extract/author interview to be place with major ANZ weekend supplements * National radio interviews on programs such as Radio National Life Matters and Radio New Zealand's Kim Hill * Wide review coverage in ANZ broadsheet and tabloid newspapers * Online reviews on sites such as the Guardian, Daily Review and Mamamia * Review coverage in Australian and NZ women's magazines including Elle, Australian Women's Weekly, New Zealand Women's Weekly and Next * Review coverage in literary and general publications such as the Big Issue, Good Reading, North & South and NZ Listener * Reading copies available before publication * Widespread online marketing campaign focused on readers of literary and current affairs publications * Shared advertising in magazines like ABR, Monthly and the Big Issue * Advertising in bookseller newsletters * Budget for bookseller catalogues * Feature title in Text newsletters, website and social media campaigns

About the Author

Maude Julien works as a psychotherapist, specialising in mind and behavioural control, emotional manipulation and trauma, and conducts anthropological research among Indigenous Australians. She lives in Paris. Ursula Gauthier is a journalist at the French weekly magazine L'Obs and the author and co-author of many works. She lives in Paris. Adriana Hunter is the prize-winning translator of writers including Catherine Millet, Amelie Nothomb and VUronique Olmi.

Reviews

'A living testimony of resilience...An account as gripping as it is inspiring.' Elle 'Maude Julien delivers a staggering testimony, one that remains full of hope.' Ouest France 'A serious subject: manipulation, in which the author is now a professional therapist. Maude Julien does not write with resentment, or bear grievances; rather she delivers a clear message of hope.' Livreshebdo 'This story is never maudlin-it is so absorbing that you have to remind yourself to breathe from time to time.' Le Point 'Her book offers a ray of hope.' Metro Belgique 'A fascinating and inspirational read.' BookMooch 'A fantastic memoir that I recommend highly. It's a unique survivorship novel of what cults can do to children, but how the resilience of children can create positive outcomes.' Cosy Dragon 'Harrowing, heartbreaking, and against-all-odds uplifting...Julien's voice is eloquent, composed, understated - the facts of the story are devastating enough. They require no emotive embellishment. That she recounts these experiences in the present tense, however, gives the book a gripping and visceral immediacy...Maude Julien is genuinely a super human.' Saturday Paper