Book Details
Title: ENOUGH: What Coercive Control Steals. What Recovery Makes Possible
Author: Geoffrey Clow with Georgie Bailey
ISBN: 978-1-7642451-4-2
Publisher: Twinkling of the Soul
Publication Date: 30 November 2025
Page Count: 700+ pages
Synopsis
Coercive control does not announce itself. It arrives with flowers, with devotion, with the promise of care. By the time the door is locked from the outside, the person inside can no longer remember who they were before.
ENOUGH: What Coercive Control Steals. What Recovery Makes Possible is a 700-page work of literary non-fiction that maps the territory of coercive control with unflinching clarity: what it looks like, how it operates, why it remains invisible to those outside it, and how survivors can begin the long work of reclaiming themselves.
Written by trauma-informed counsellor Geoffrey Clow, the book carries the voice and forty-year survival story of the late Georgie Bailey, whose testimony forms the emotional and moral centre of the work. Georgie endured decades of coercive control before finding freedom, love, and her own voice in her final years. She died in August 2022. Her words, preserved in Chapter 14 and woven throughout, speak directly to survivors who may never have heard their own experience named.
This is not self-help in the conventional sense. There are no wellness slogans, no exhortations to forgive and move on. Instead, the book offers what survivors desperately need and rarely receive: recognition. It names the patterns of manipulation. It dismantles the self-blame that abusers cultivate. It provides practical tools for recovery that work even when professional support is unavailable or unaffordable.
ENOUGH addresses a contemporary issue of urgent national significance. Coercive control is now recognised in Australian law, yet most survivors still cannot access informed support. Therapy waitlists are long. Specialists are rare. Many are told to “work on communication” with their abuser. This book bridges that gap, offering a resource that survivors can return to again and again as they rebuild.
The book is written in the language survivors use when they search for answers at 3 a.m. It meets them where they are: shaking, doubting, wondering if what happened was real. It says: it was real. It was wrong. And recovery is possible.
Recovery is not about returning to who you were. It is about becoming who they never let you be.
Author Biography
Geoffrey Clow is a writer, advocate, and counsellor who has spent the past decade supporting survivors of coercive control, narcissistic abuse, trauma, and emotional abuse. Trained in forward-facing trauma therapy and crisis support, he brings both professional insight and lived experience to his work. He is the founder of Twinkling of the Soul, a survivor-led social enterprise based in Canberra, Australia. ENOUGH is his first book.
Acknowledgment
ENOUGH incorporates the voice and testimony of Georgie Bailey (1968–2022), consultant, writer, advocate, and survivor, whose lived experience of coercive control and rare disease shaped her life’s work. Her words, grounded in honesty and resilience, continue to guide and empower others. Chapter 14 is written entirely in her voice. Her story, her courage, and her love are the heart of this book.
Statement of Significance
Coercive control has been recognised as a form of domestic abuse in Australian legislation, yet public understanding remains limited and support services remain scarce. ENOUGH is one of the first Australian works to address coercive control recovery at length, combining lived experience, professional expertise, and practical guidance in a single, comprehensive volume.
The book speaks to a population that is underserved and often unheard: survivors who cannot access specialist therapy, who have been disbelieved by institutions, who are still entangled with their abusers through family court proceedings or financial dependence. It offers what many have never received: validation that what happened was real, was wrong, and was not their fault.
At 700 pages, ENOUGH is not a pamphlet or a quick guide. It is a serious work of non-fiction that treats its subject with the depth and gravity it deserves. It is also, at its core, a love story: the story of a woman who survived forty years of control and found freedom, voice, and love before she died, and the man who promised to carry her words forward.
This book exists because Georgie Bailey wanted other survivors to know that recovery is possible. It exists because Geoffrey Clow made a promise to tell her story. It exists because, at some point, every survivor reaches the moment when they stop excusing, stop minimising, and finally say the word that should have ended it the first time someone tried to erase them.
Enough.