Does justice for a crime committed allow reconciliation to follow?
Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else in the world: the man who brutally murdered her daughter Lizzie four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred has only grown heavier with the passing of time and her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger. In writing to him, Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. But whether she can truly forgive him is another matter - and the letters are her last, best hope.
Exploring fundamental questions of crime and punishment, this book exposes the aftermath of violent crime for an ordinary family.
Praise for Cath Staincliffe
'An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout.' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
'Complex and satisfying.' Sunday Times
'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that.'
Val McDermid