The common-law spouse of the man responsible for the Nova Scotia mass shooting has written a book about the abuse she endured in their relationship.
Lisa Banfield’s memoir is called The First Survivor: Life with Canada’s Deadliest Mass Shooter.
On April 18, 2020, the killer, dressed as an RCMP officer, went on a rampage in Portapique, NS and surrounding areas that left twenty-two people and an unborn child dead.
In a release, Sutherland House says Lisa Banfield tells her story for the first time of surviving nearly 20 years of intimate partner violence and that horrific night.
The Toronto-based publisher says it is not just her personal account but “a call to action” in which “she exposes the failures in how society sees, supports, and judges survivors of domestic abuse.”
Banfield wrote the book with journalist Sherri Aikenhead, and her sister, Maureen Banfield.
It is due to be published January 20, 2026.
