The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal

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From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction.

When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who'd given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating background. Soon they were in love, and when he proposed after a month it seemed recklessly romantic. Caught up in a whirlwind, Mary accepted that Will's work often took him away from home, out of contact. She was his rock, supporting him emotionally when a misunderstanding led to criminal charges, and even selling everything when blackmailers threatened to kidnap their children. Together, they took on the world. And then one day the phone rang, and a woman introduced herself as 'the other Mrs Jordan'... In this raw account of deception on a grand scale, Mary Turner Thomson recounts what happened after she discovered every word he'd said, from the very first moment, was a lie. This is her painful, humiliating truth-but she tells it for one reason: she too was once a strong, independent woman who would have read all this and thought It could never happen to me...

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A brilliant and incisive account of [Thomsons] nightmare. Daily Express I couldnt put down this gripping read. Woman The most shocking Internet-dating story you will ever come across. The Sun Gives the misery memoir concept a horrible new twist. The Bookseller If ever there was a story to prove the age-old adage that love is blind, this is surely it. Daily Mail

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Mary Turner Thomson grew up in Edinburgh. She has a BA Hons in Creative and Performing Arts as well as diplomas in marketing, business advice and literature/creative writing. She worked as a business adviser, marketing consultant and motivational trainer before deciding to write a memoir of her marriage to a conman and bigamist. The sequel to The Bigamist, The Psychopath, is due out from Little A in 2020, and Mary is currently working on her first novel, a psychological thriller.