Sammy HK Smith’s new novel Anna is now out both sides of the Atlantic, and she chatted with Paul Simpson about the challenges of writing about coercive control.

Rape is horrific. It’s probably, aside from murder, the worst crime you can commit against a person. So I did start to draw, not on any individual cases that I’ve worked on but on the behaviours of how I felt a victim, or as they like to be known ‘a survivor’, might behave.

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