Don't You Want Me - Mrs Shelly Betts

It's June 1983. Louise Winter is fifteen, madly in love with Heath Anderson, has a great circle of friends and a Saturday job at Woolworths. Life is good; until she meets her idol Donny Neville during a public appearance at the opening of the record department in Birmingham. During his violent sexual assault on Louise, Donny Neville is attacked and left for dead. But which of her three best friends came to her rescue: Tracy; Alyia or Debra? The police have no witnesses or evidence to link them to his attack. Louise refuses to report her assault to the police in fear of the repercussions. All four girls make a pact to keep the harrowing altercation a secret. Thirty three years later, Donny Neville is accused of sexual assaults on other women and taken in for questioning. The police reopen the case in relation to his attack in nineteen eighty three and the four women fear their past is coming back to shatter their lives. Will Louise be able to keep her torturous secret for much longer, or will she break and reveal all? Does she really believe her confession will bring back everything he has taken from her since that horrific night; her friends; her first love; her trust in men? Can she finally face up to her past for the sake of her future?