Mary Turner Thomson
Mary Turner Thomson was brought up in Edinburgh and worked as a marketing consultant, business adviser and motivational trainer. A proud mother of three children, she is now rebuilding her life.
Books by Mary Turner Thomson
Trading Places
Natalie Hutchison had faced it all - emotionally neglected as a child, endometriosis, cancer resulting in a hysterectomy, a battered wife, sexually assaulted by her ex-husband, and then bankrupted. However Natalie did not let it bury her. Finally she took control of her life, finding a strength she never knew she had. She turned her life around by starting her own business, reversed the fortunes of her life, and in 2006 won Barclay Bank’s Trading Places award. An inspirational and moving story by the author of The Bigamist.
White Water Publishing, March 2009
The Bigamist
‘I am the other Mrs Jordan.’
On a damp, grey April morning in 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that was to blow her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line calmly told her that she and Will Jordan, Mary’s husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married for fourteen years and had five children together.
The Bigamist is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated and deceived an intelligent, independent woman, conning her out of around £200,000 and leaving her near bankrupt to bring up the children he claimed he was physically incapable of fathering.
It’s a story that we all think could never happen to us, but before dismissing her as an easily duped, desperate woman, read how he baited and maintained the traps he used to manipulate and abuse her since before they even met. Learn how this shameless conman has been doing the same thing to various other women and how he concocted the most intricate of cover stories, claiming to be a CIA agent to cover his frequent unexplained absences. In the words of both the prey and the predator, this book exposes a life shattering con by an expert charmer who has been practising deceit, fraud and abuse for at least 26 years. It is also the story of Mary’s refusal to be beaten and her positive fight to reclaim her life by choosing not to be a victim.
How far would you go to help the man that you loved? How far would he go to deceive you? And what would you do when you found out it was all a lie?
“William Allen Jordan, you are 41 years old, a con man, a convicted paedophile, and a bigamist. You are an inveterate exploiter of vulnerable women, not just financially but also emotionally.”
Judge Thomas Corrie
UK Publication Date : June 2007
World rights : Mainstream
Film & television : Jenny Brown Associates