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for my English coursework I am writing a script concerning a woman who is in an abusive relationship, and need to do some research.
Can anyone recommend any novels which perhaps consider the woman being trapped?
It would also be useful to read a novel from an abuser's point of view, if anyone knows of any.

thanks

p.s. hope I posted this in the right place

I recently finished Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman. This is a little different as it is about a woman with a good husband entering into an affair with an old fling who is a controlling abusive man. It is a very good book.

Umm, this isn't actually a battered woman case, but it's still an abusive relationship - only it's between mother and child. A Child Called It? I haven't read it yet, but I really really want, too.

I know this book is royally hated, but Twilight actually has a rather abusive relationship in it, even though the author doesn't present it as such. She presents it as the "perfect" relationship instead, which I find strange at best.