New edition

See What You Made Me Do

Power, Control and Domestic Abuse

Black inc. Books

Jun 2019

Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave? We should be asking: why did he do it?

Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators - and the systems that enable them - in the spotlight. See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into the abuse so many women and children experience - abuse that is often reinforced by the justice system they trust to protect them. Critically, it shows that we can drastically reduce domestic abuse - not in generations to come, but today.

Combining forensic research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do radically rethinks how to confront the national crisis of fear and abuse in our homes.

“Confronting in its honesty, this book challenges you to keep reading, no matter how uncomfortable it is.”

- Rosie batty

Winner
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Stella Prize
2020
Winner
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Stella Prize
2020
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Winner
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ABA Booksellers’ Choice Award for Non-Fiction
2020
Winner
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ABA Booksellers’ Choice Award for Non-Fiction
2020
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Shortlisted
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Walkley Book Award
2019
Shortlisted
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Walkley Book Award
2019
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Shortlisted
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General Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards
2020
Shortlisted
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General Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards
2020
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Finalist
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Australian Human Rights Commission Media Award
2019
Finalist
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Australian Human Rights Commission Media Award
2019
Shortlisted
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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
2020
Shortlisted
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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
2020
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Finalist
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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
2020
Finalist
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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
2020
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Translated editions available in Russia, Hungary and China
"A shattering book: clear-headed and meticulous, driving always at the truth."
Helen Garner
“The most important book of the last decade on one of the most critical issues in our time.”
Rick Morton
100 Years of Dirt
"Jess Hill is a journalist whose clarity of expression and thought are of the highest order... (her) extraordinary call to action cannot be ignored."
Louise Swinn
Chair of the 2020 Stella Judging Panel
“One Australian a week is dying as a result of domestic abuse. If that was terrorism, we’d have armed guards on every corner.”
Jimmy Barnes
“An extraordinary work… power on every page… a meticulously researched piece of longform journalism.”
Lucy Clark
The Guardian
“Jess Hill’s reporting on gendered violence has changed the course of public policy in this country.”
Chris Minns
NSW Premier MP
“In some respects, The Reckoning is contemporary history – a first draft account of seismic developments that will continue to be dissected in the decades to come. Hill is to be commended for this tour de force of reportage and analysis.”
Kieran Pender
“What’s missing from Hill’s essay is a greater understanding of why many have been frustrated by and disappointed with the exploitation of the #MeToo movement... Not every claim under the #MeToo banner deserved, or deserves, to be taken seriously. Not all women are powerless patsies in the workplace.”
Janet Albrechtsen
“...Hill’s essay is so powerful. It lays down the narrative, without spin but with deep analysis, adding perspective to two years of anger and inaction. It displays the entire puzzle in clear, chronological daylight for all to see.”
Amber Schultz
"Jess Hill exhibits how the #MeToo movement has always derived power from storytelling — a chorus of survivors speaking together to testify that this harm is common but unacceptable. The essay maps the courage and tenacity of the survivors who have spoken up, spoken out and spoken back over the past five years."
Hannah Ryan and Gina Rushton
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Jess Hill is an Australian investigative journalist and author whose work has transformed national understanding of gendered violence. Through her in-depth reporting, she explores coercive control and the systems that enable it. Her work has been recognised with major awards, including the Walkley award and Stella Prize.
Jess now works across media, education, and advocacy to drive change and expand awareness of how violence can be prevented.
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See What You Made Me Do

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Other Books By Jess Hill:
The Reckoning
Quarterly Essay No. 84
Losing It
Quarterly Essay No. 97