Brutal Legacy: A memoir by Tracy Going

ISBN: 9781928420125

Jacana Media, July 2018

Paperback, 320 pages

When the battered face of Tracy Going, South Africa’s golden girl of broadcasting, was splashed across the media back in the late 1990s, the nation was shocked. Sensational headlines of a whirlwind love relationship turned horrendously violent threw the “perfect” life of the household star into disarray. In mesmerizing detail, Going takes us through the harrowing court process, her decline into depression, the immediate collapse of her career due to the highly public nature of her assault and the decades-long journey to undo the psychological damages in the search for safety and the reclaiming of self. The roots of violence form the backdrop of the book, tracing Going’s childhood on a plot in Brits, laced with the unpredictable violence of an