Fighting Back: A Battered Woman's Desperate Struggle to Survive

The twisted relationship between a battered woman and her tormentor and husband is fully explored here, using court records and hundreds of interviews with everyone involved to answer why the wife chose to kill rather than walk away. Original.

Robert Davidson is the winner of a Best Nonfiction Award from New England's venerable Seacoast Writers Association and is the coauthor of How Good Parents Raise Great Kids. He has written numerous columns for the Portsmouth Herald in New Hampshire. For Fighting Back, Davidson spent hundreds of hours personally interviewing June Briand, as well as speaking with her lawyers and poring over reams of court transcripts and countless interviews of virtually every person involved with the Briand case over the last ten years.