Bodily Harm

by Kim Hunter

At a young age, Samantha Whitman is left all alone in the world. Securing lodgings at the home of Doris Franklin, former mistress of the late notorious gangster Archie Miller, Sammy slowly starts to enjoy life again. After a chance meeting, she is swept off of her feet by a handsome stranger and is totally taken in by his charm. A whirlwind romance ensues and through no real fault of her own and only due to her desperate need to be loved, Samantha soon finds herself a prisoner in a brutal, loveless marriage. Like so many before her, she hides it well from those she has regular contact with and to most on the outside world, she is happy and content. Suffering in silence for several years at the hands of her sadistic husband Gerry, Sammy always has a smile and painstakingly conceals the cuts and bruises. Told many times, that if she ever tries to leaves he will kill her, Sammy is broken and scared. Finally, she realises that things have to change or she will inevitably die. Now Sammy faces a dilemma in the choice she has to make, does she walk away and spend the rest of her life looking over her shoulder or take the law into her own hands? Can she find the strength to finally walk out and if she does, what will the consequences be? Bodily Harm is the sad tale of a young woman’s desperate fight for survival and the price she is ultimately forced to pay.

206 pages, Paperback

Published March 19, 2020

About the author

Author Kim Hunter lives in the beautiful county of Norfolk and has, at various times, worked on the land, been a cleaner and assisted a local auctioneer as his ledgerer. She is now a full-time writer.
Her novels are mostly set in the seedy underworld of London's East End. Her fan base is rapidly growing due to her ability to 'tell a good story' a popular description from readers! Likened to Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, Kim writes with a passion and distinct style that allows her readers to feel as if they know each character personally.
At the age of forty, Kim decided to change her life and tried her hand at writing Independently.
Her first Novel 'Whatever It Takes' was soon followed by thirteen others and Kim's fifteenth book 'Bodily Harm' was released on March the 15th 2020
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Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was a belter
It was Sammy and Gerry who got married but Gerry was a wife beater
He was a wife beater and he also went with others too
He got killed when they were on holiday he was knifed by Sammy
Then she got with a man called Tommy and it was wonderful

[jackie stokes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow

This story is horrific & shocking what that monster did to his wife , it had me gripped from 3 rd page till the very end