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"This book masquerades as the story of Ms Hatfield's fight for justice when she is accused of murdering her second husband Chris Hatfield. The book in fact features very little about the criminal justice system and procedure and is essentially a chronicle of the writer's lurid sex life. By half way through the book readers have heard very little about the crime Ms Hatfield was charged with but a great deal about her sexual prowess, her encounters and her taste in men."
Fiona McNally, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- adultery
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this person?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- Dry-cynical
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- rape/molest (yeech!)
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- use of artificial tools
- orgies
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- lesbians!
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
- main character services as prostitute
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
- justice system
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- Some in color 1-5
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 26-50% of book
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