In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she thought her dreams had come true, but never did she imagine she would be plunged into another nightmare: a psychopathic four-year campaign of violence and coercive control at his evil hands.
Despite being told she would never conceive due to the toll cancer took on her body, Nicola beat the odds a second time and became pregnant to Moody. Trapped in an unrelenting cycle of abuse, the baby she had always wished for gave Nicola newfound hope for the future. Until mid-way through her pregnancy, when she found a lump in her breast. The cancer was back.
In Stronger, Nicola charts her extraordinary journey through unimaginable abuse and aggressive, recurring illness. Revealing the insidious nature of coercive control, she recounts how Moody manipulated her and threatened her loved ones to keep her compliant.
Throughout it all, Nicola refused to succumb. She proved herself stronger than the disease that threatened to take her life. Stronger than the man who tried to crush her spirit. Stronger than the bad hand she was dealt.
