‘I was filled with dread’: after her father killed her mother, Amani Haydar found words to heal

In her new book, the lawyer, artist and women's advocate turns family trauma into something extraordinary, far-reaching and ultimately hopeful

The day after Amani Haydar's father murdered her mother, the rewriting of her life's story began.

Her childhood, her memories, her beliefs, her ideas about her parent's relationship - they were all up for reassessment after the night everything happened". In those first few days in 2015, that phrase were the only words Haydar could find for such an appalling trauma. Then, slowly, more words came.