David Challen

“When [my mother] struck, it was with the cumulative rage of 30 years of hurt.” David Challen grew up in the perfect home with the model family. David Challen also grew up inside a house which concealed his father's manipulation and control. On a Saturday in 2010, his mother struck twenty blows to the back of her husband's head with...

'David is one of the most courageous men I know . . . His book is one that everyone should read to understand coercive control, and what it is like to be a child growing up in a house where there is domestic abuse' — Melanie Brown MBE, aka Mel B The Unthinkable stares down horror and heartbreak. A story...