Blood Vows

A haunting memoir of marriage and murder

Helen Cummings

In 1970, a pretty young woman called Helen Cummings married a handsome doctor called Stuart Wynter. What she hoped would be a marriage made in heaven was the beginning of a hellish existence of spiralling abuse from which she escaped six years later with her two young children. Except the abuse didn’t end. Dr Wynter remarried, his new wife and child weren’t able to escape, and Helen wasn’t able to help.

In this brave memoir, Helen Cummings relates an idyllic childhood growing up in 1960s Australia and looks back on a marriage that nearly killed her and her children.