The All Souls Complete Trilogy

by Deborah Harkness

Matthew flung him across the room, where he hit the wall of the hay barn, all the while retaining a one-handed grip on his father’s throat.

Badly constructed sentence. It's not clear that the grip is being undertaken by Matthew and not the man being thrown across the room.

I was no longer Philippe’s putative daughter, but Matthew’s wife.

But still defined by relationship to a man!