If you're about to embark on a family court procedure involving your children, I would strongly advise NOT reading this book beforehand. I started reading this after 6 court appearances over a 10 month period of trying (successfully) to stop my daughter from being relocated overseas by ex and her new husband, and reading this beforehand would have destroyed my already fragile frame of mind at the time. It is such a stressful book, that I could only handle a couple of chapters at a time.
I think Mark Harris deserves respect for exposing some of the worst aspects of family courts. Whilst me and my daughter have been lucky to have a perceptive judge, Mark's experience makes the judicial system in this usually progressive and great country look like a sick joke, and I really hope that his effort will have gone some way in changing the norm where the family courts mostly seem to side with the interfering, deceiving parent who only pursue their own selfish interests.
