No Visible Bruises

How to protect yourself from someone against whom even the strongest doors and the highest walls are powerless—because that person is inside those walls.

Domestic violence is a topic that for a long time remained on the periphery of society’s attention. “They’ll sort it out in their own family.” Now, when the problem has moved beyond the closed doors of nicely furnished living rooms and cozy bedrooms into the realm of public discussion, it has become obvious how enormous and terrifying it is. While writing the book, Rachel Louise Snyder—one of the world’s leading experts on domestic violence—spoke with a huge number of people: with victims and their tormentors, with those who killed a family member, and with those who went after these killers; with people who abused others and those who were abused; with those who stood up to protect victims, and with those who turned away from them. The result was not an easy book to listen to, but an extremely important one that, in the literal sense of the word, can save lives.