In 1971 Erin Pizzey set up the world’s first refuge for battered women and their children. 40 years later, she describes the battles she was forced to fight: against the establishment, the church, the courts, and not least, the women’s movement. She also describes her own troubled childhood, her discovery of feminism and her political activism, including her coinage of an abiding epithet for Margaret Thatcher: ‘Milk Snatcher’. Revealing, frank and frequently very funny, Pizzey’s memoirs provide a marvellous insight into the world of 1970s radicalism.

Peter Owen Ltd | Paperback 300 pp. |ISBN: 9780720613605