THE FIRST SURVIVOR by Lisa Banfield (epub)(Nonfiction) torrent

THE FIRST SURVIVOR by Lisa Banfield (epub)(Nonfiction)
Author: Lisa Banfield, with Sherri Aikenhead and Maureen Banfield
Full title: The First Survivor: Life With Canada’s Deadliest Mass Shooter
Length: approximately 224 pages
Release date: January 20, 2026
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Memoir; True crime; Domestic violence

Banfield recounts 19 years in a controlling and often violent relationship with Gabriel Wortman, who on April 18–19, 2020, went on to commit the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history, killing 22 people and an unborn child across rural Nova Scotia. She describes how grooming, coercive control, and escalating abuse isolated her from family, eroded her autonomy, and culminated in the night she fled barefoot into freezing woods as he began his rampage, hiding until dawn while explosions sounded in the distance. The memoir is both a survivor’s account and a call to action, arguing that intimate‑partner violence is a public‑health crisis and exposing how institutions, communities, and media often misunderstand and stigmatize victims even after they escape.