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"When the battered face of Tracy Going, South Africa's golden girl of broadcasting, was splashed across the media back in the late 1990s, the nation was shocked. Sensational headlines of a whirlwind love relationship turned horrendously violent threw the ""perfect"" life of the household star into disarray. In mesmerizing detail, Going takes us through the harrowing court process, her decline into depression, the immediate collapse of her career due to the highly public nature of her assault and the decades-long journey to undo the psychological damages in the search for safety and the reclaiming of self. The roots of violence form the backdrop of the book, tracing Going's childhood on a plot in Brits, laced with the unpredictable violence of an alcoholic father who regularly terrorized the family with his fists of rage. Brilliantly penned, this highly skilled debut memoir is ultimately uplifting in the realization that healing is a lengthy and often arduous process and that self-forgiveness and acceptance is essential to fully embrace life."

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Searing, heartbreaking, triumphant: Brutal Legacy is for anyone who's been punched in the face by someone they loved and then stood up again. It's for every mother who has run, every sister who has picked up the pieces and every friend who hasn't fled. It's for every brother who's cried and for the children who have watched. Every South African should read it. - Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country. On average, one in five South African women older than 18 has experienced physical violence, but the picture of gender-based attacks varies according to marital status and wealth. Four in 10 divorced or separated women reported physical violence, as has one in three women in the poorest households. It's a complex picture that emerges in Statistics SA's 2016 Demographic and Health Survey ... And it is one that not only challenges societal attitudes of patriarchy and chauvinism, but also the effectiveness of government programmes and interventions. - Marianne Merten, Daily Maverick

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Tracy Going is an award-winning former TV and radio news anchor. She is best remembered for the years spent waking South Africans on SABC 2's Morning Live and as a prime-time news anchor for Radio Metro and Kaya FM. She has also written two successful children's story-cookbooks, African Animals: Rhymes & Recipes and Awesome Animals: Rhymes & Recipes, which received the prestigious Best in South Africa Gourmand Cookbook Award. Over the last four years she has lectured at AFDA film school in Cape Town but left to focus on writing her memoir Brutal Legacy.

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