<p>“A brilliant and incisive account of [Thomson’s] nightmare.” <b>—<i>Daily Express</i></b></p><p>“I couldn’t put down this gripping read.” <b>—<i>Woman</i></b></p> <p>“The most shocking Internet-dating story you will ever come across.” <b>—<i>The Sun</i></b></p><p>“Gives the misery memoir concept a horrible new twist.” <b>—<i>The Bookseller</i></b></p><p>“If ever there was a story to prove the age-old adage that love is blind, this is surely it.” <b>—<i>Daily Mail</i></b></p>
Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX.
From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction.
When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who’d given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating background. Soon they were in love, and when he proposed after a month it seemed recklessly romantic.
Caught up in a whirlwind, Mary accepted that Will’s work often took him away from home, out of contact. She was his rock, supporting him emotionally when a misunderstanding led to criminal charges, and even selling everything when blackmailers threatened to kidnap their children. Together, they took on the world.
And then one day the phone rang, and a woman introduced herself as ‘the other Mrs Jordan’…
In this raw account of deception on a grand scale, Mary Turner Thomson recounts what happened after she discovered every word he’d said, from the very first moment, was a lie. This is her painful, humiliating truth—but she tells it for one reason: she too was once a strong, independent woman who would have read all this and thought It could never happen to me…
Revised edition: Previously published as The Bigamist: the true story of a husband’s ultimate betrayal, this edition of The Bigamist includes editorial revisions.