A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews Quotes

“I’d realised that romance novels, which were largely written by women for women, were social history documents about the way that gender roles had evolved over the last fifty years. I’d argue the case as I did when I defended my dissertation, that more than anything, romance novels are also unclaimed feminist texts.

- Tom Greer”
― Annie Darling, A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews

“Because it’s classic emotional abuse,’ Tom said and he sounded genuinely angry now. ‘To isolate someone, convince them that they’re worthless and that the only person who really loves them is their abuser. It’s the worst kind of toxic, controlling behaviour.”
― Annie Darling, A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews

“In common parlance, gaslighting is the completely despicable and coercive tactic used by men, who don’t even deserve to be called men, to control their partners. They’ll convince them that they’re suffering from all sorts of personality defects when in reality, they’ve been goaded into displaying these sorts of behaviours.”
― Annie Darling, A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews