Month: May 2025

Three years ago, I began an unusual project. I decided to write four novellas, each 40,000 words long, based around the traditional building blocks of the universe – water, earth, fire, and air – otherwise known as The Elements. The idea was to explore sexual abuse from different perspectives: a woman who questions whether she has enabled an abuser, a young man complicit in a rape, a perpetrator of sexual violence, and finally a victim. Each book is a stand-alone …