PD James, Tina Nash on surviving domestic abuse

On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash’s abusive boyfriend subjected her to a prolonged and barbaric attack at her home in Cornwall, in which he beat her unconscious and gouged out both her eyes. Shane Jenkin was arrested four days later, was tried in May this year, and is now serving an indeterminate sentence in a mental hospital. Tina, a mother of two sons, is now rebuilding her life without her sight. She joins Jane Garvey to explain what led up to that horrific attack, how she has survived it, and why she hopes her story will encourage others in abusive relationships to escape.

Tina Nash’s book Out of the Darkness is published on Thursday 25 October

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Author PD James has just been awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Women of the Year 2012 lunch and awards. Born in 1920, she has had an extraordinarily full and varied life. She combined her very successful novel writing career with two distinguished careers in hospital administration and as a civil servant. She’s been a magistrate, a BBC governor, and a member of the Arts Council and the British council. In 1991 she was made a Life Peer, and until very recently took an active part in the House of Lords. She talks to Jane about different aspects of her long life – her family, writing career, and public role - and how she now spends her time at the age of 92.