Something about the woman on her television screen made Laura Wray feel uneasy. The lawyer, and widow of a Labour MP, was relaxing at home, captivated by the opening minutes of the sensation Baby Reindeer, particularly by the character Martha who stalks a struggling comedian.What was it about Martha that seemed so familiar? Maybe the raucous laugh that seemed to last just a bit too long, or the way she clutched her handbag to her side when timidly entering a pub. Whatever it was about this curly-haired Scot, she reminded Laura of someone from her past. The realisation came like an electric jolt, and Laura slumped back on her sofa, open-mouthed.For she knew Martha only too well, or rather the real Martha, who, more than a quarter of a century earlier, upended Laura's happy life with a relentless five-year harassment campaign. It was so fierce at one stage that Laura was forced to issue staff at her law firm with panic alarms.
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