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Fiction aimed at the heart
and the head...
Published by Caffeine Nights Publishing 2013
Copyright © Ruth Jacobs 2013
Ruth Jacobs has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998 to be identified as the author of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.
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ISBN: 978-1-907565-36-6
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Cover design by
Mark (Wills) Williams
Everything else by
Default, Luck and Accident
Acknowledgements
I am eternally grateful for, and would like to thank, my brave and generous friends from the 1990s who, being call girls at the time, participated in my research into prostitution. To the many exited women and to the women currently in the sex trade I am in contact with and for whom I have much respect and admiration, I am sending you love. Yet we know this story is fiction, we also know how very real this is with many women in the life having suffered multiple rapes.
I owe so much to my Grandma Clara and my dear friend, Q, who are no longer alive, but who have played a large part in my writing this novel. To my wonderful sons, thank you for believing in me - sending you hugs. Thank you to my mother who was my very first reader, my father, and to my sister, Chloe, who told me I was writing a bestseller. For her never-ending care and encouragement, love and thanks to my mother-in-law (without a marriage), Elizabeth Sees. Thank you to my favourite Uncle David for never judging me and always loving me for who I am, and thank you to his fiancée, Bobie. Although no longer alive, I must thank my favourite Great Auntie Raie for her unconditional love, and my Grandpa Abe, and my Grandma Raie and my Grandpa Archie.
Massive thanks to Sharon Murphy who saved my life in my mid-twenties, and also to the many other special people who have pulled me from the wreckage in which I have found myself way too often. Thank you to Simon Birke for restoring me to sanity whenever I have lost it over the recent years. Huge thanks to Claire Meadows, Jane Frankland and Emma Roberts for their help, inspiration and support. Thank you to Estelle Longcroft, Natasha Sandy, Deborah Malyon, Jamie Easterman, Jayne Rogers, Laura Schulman and Avril Harker for their proofreading and encouragement. Thank you to Tabitha Rosen for always having my back and to Melanie Murphy-Fowle for always being there whenever I’ve needed her. To my friend, Katie Bridgit O'Brien, thank you for my very first radio interview on your show. Brian Parsons, thank you so much for allowing me to use your beautiful and powerful song, Just Us and Justice, for my trailer, and for making it for me too. Although I haven’t known her long, I must thank Missy, who is an angel I hope stays in my life - from the US, she’s managed to be an amazing support to me. Thank you to Pete Sortwell and Kat O’Dea - you both know how you’ve played a part in this. And thank you to Clayton Dean for your excellent timing. For inside information, thank you to Richard Godly, and for her anecdotes, thanks to Jane Sibley. And a huge thank you to all my other friends, both new and old, who have helped and supported me so generously in numerous ways.
Thank you so much to Darren Laws at Caffeine Nights who believed in me and my debut novel, and special thanks to Sandra Mangan for editing, and Mark (Will) Williams for designing the cover.
For taking the time to help an aspiring novelist with research, thank you to Paula McColgan from The Lanesborough; James Kerman from Winkworth’s, Ladbroke Grove; Lesley Atkinson from Holborn Library; The Magdala, Hampstead; Sandling Fireworks, Gloucestershire; UCAS; Metropolitan Police; Hertfordshire Police.
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Soul Destruction: Unforgivable is dedicated to Q, the most beautiful soul and so impossible to forget. May she rest in peace, reunited with her babies in heaven.
Soul Destruction: Unforgivable
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