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Pertinent points on the realities of sexual violence against women

The Right Amount Of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety
by Fiona Vera-Gray
(Policy Press, £11.99)

A GIRL sat on a bus reading a book, when a man in front turned round and said: “I just thought we could get to know each other.”

She demurred, but he persisted and followed her off the bus. She went the long way home on the main road, but he kept alongside her until they came to a hospital, where she threatened to scream, causing him to scurry away.

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