Why Are So Many Middle Class Wives Beating Up Their Husbands?

From weekly Ocado deliveries to monthly book club gatherings and evenings at the theatre, everything about the lives of Paul and Meena Chivers epitomised middle-class respectability.

Teachers by profession, they attended church every Sunday, where they were popular members of the congregration but behind closed doors, at their neat, four-bedroom semi, in a picturesque town on the edge of the Cotswolds, however, a different scene played out.