Dorris Louise

Entrapment Dorris Louise

The council estates of Nottingham can be rough places where drugs, alcohol, anger, and hopelessness mix with volatile results.



Twenty-one-year-old Clara Parker, a single mother with a broken heart, lives in a council flat. The man she thought loved her walked out after the birth of their daughter, and Clara resigned herself to a miserable life full of struggle. But then charming, handsome Joe Miller comes along, and Clara dares to love again.



Unfortunately, Joe isn't what he seems. He's deep into Nottingham's drug culture-a cruel, manipulative pusher with two drug-addicted sisters and a set of dangerous friends.



Capitalizing on Clara's vulnerability and kind heart, Joe quickly turns abusive. Emotionally and physically beaten, Clara feels worthless and isolated as Joe forces her to do things she finds abhorrent. Leaving Joe is the obvious solution, but like so many battered women, Clara finds that impossible. Unless she can find the strength to defy her tormentor, Clara's future-and that of her daughter-looks bleak and painful.



A gritty, honest account of domestic violence and crime set in the low-income multifamily housing estates of Nottingham, Entrapment is the first in a six-part series about the social ills plaguing the United Kingdom.