The facts of rape

by Barbara Toner

Dust Jacket looks ... well, as though it's been assaulted. Rips, tears and general wear have battered it pretty thoroughly but its done the job well and the book itself is in wonderful condition.

208 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

Barbara Toner is an acclaimed author and columnist who has written extensively about the lot of women in all its manifestations and with all its glorious intricacies, both in fiction and non fiction. Her first two books, Double Shift, and The Facts of Rape were written at a time when there was demonstrably little fair play for women in the work force, the law courts or society in general.



With the arrival of her third daughter, Barbara chose to attack the iniquities in a lighter tone via a long-running column in Woman magazine. Tales from Tessa Wood, stories from a fictional marriage, charted the frustrations of a receptionist with a boring working life and an even less interesting marriage. It spawned two Tessa Wood novels, Married Secrets and The Infernal Triangle which led to contracts for Brain Street (tensions and upward mobility in South London) and The Need To Be Famous (a family‘s unseemly quest for the limelight).



Barbara wrote three further novels All You Need to Know (beautiful girl gets her looks into perspective), An Organised Woman (sisters struggle for supremacy) and Cracking America (fate versus circumstance in Nashville) while writing a column on home life for YOU magazine in the Mail on Sunday. That column inspired A Mothers Guide To Life (updated and renamed Because I Love You in 2012) and A Mother’s Guide to Husbands, each of which ignored the universal truth that advice should only be offered if sought.



After a stint as a columnist for the Guardian, Barbara began to divide her time between London and a house on the far south coast of NSW. She has since written What To Do About Everything, a modern household manual, Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband, (scandal and empowerment in rural NSW in 1919) and Four Respectable Ladies Seek The Meaning Of Wife. This will be published on April 2nd, 2019



Barbara is married, has three daughters, five grandchildren and continues to live between homes in the UK and Australia.

Reviews

[Bec · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent picture of the shifting values and change in the ways crime was committed as society went through the sexual and feminist revolutions. A good read if you're interested the history.