Fifteen years after her explosive family memoir, Fatima Bhutto has written a devastating account of the abuse she endured in a decade-long relationship. The new book, The Hour of the Wolf, details her painful realisation that The Man, as she calls him, was coercively controlling and manipulative.
Bhutto met The Man in New York in 2011 while touring her memoir Songs of Blood and Sword. Over 11 years, they maintained a long-distance relationship, meeting monthly. She describes him as dazzling and demonic, switching without warning, isolating her from friends and belittling her in public.
The author says she felt ashamed and embarrassed to write about it, but knew that reading something similar would have helped her. The relationship ended in 2021 when she realised he would never give her the family she wanted. She was 40.
Bhutto met her husband, Graham, in 2022 and they now have two sons. For security reasons, she prefers not to specify where they live. She credits her dog Coco as a source of comfort throughout the ordeal.
