The Tower Donald B. Gibson Timoti wound up in prison

Timoti wound up in prison three times - for carrying an offensive weapon

and each of them left an indelible mark on history

and they are also family homes

she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence

Through evocative still-life vignettes and close-­ups

The Tower Donald B. Gibson Timoti wound up in prisonVeering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we dont always tell the story we set out to tell. Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the