What on earth does a woman do to stop herself going mad in the days after discovering her husband is a paedophile?
Lynsey Crombie says that some women ‘might go to a yoga retreat’ to calm the swirling horror in their heads, but it’s unlikely, ‘since the shame makes you afraid to leave the house’.
In her case, reaching for the gin was out of the question, too, since she was 28 weeks pregnant with twins when her husband was arrested. Instead, she grabbed the bleach.
‘Pure bleach,’ she says. ‘I remember pouring it all over the work surfaces, and over my own
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