Acknowledgements

There are so many people to thank that it’s hard to be selective.

This book started out being about why women with PhDs left science and ended up being about emotional abuse. Thank you to Dr Hayley Wickens (beta reader extraordinaire) and Dr Emma Byrne for long discussions about workplace bullying, emotional abuse and the difficulty of helping someone who doesn’t want your help.

Thank you also to Jen Hicks, for her thorough critiques – without her this book would have been more rambling and contained a lot more of Mrs Tait; to the lovely team at Choc Lit for making this book even better; to the RNA for the support and invaluable advice.

Last of all, thanks to my family for … well, everything. I couldn’t do this without you.