Bobby knows she must escape vicious husband Joe before he kills their six-year-old daughter, Penny. With her bruised and swollen face, she drives frantically from their upstate New York home to a well-to-do Connecticut enclave - and providentially is taken on as a nurse/companion to elderly stroke victim Alma. Both Alma and her novelist daughter Eva have doubts about the two, but Bobby is remarkably able, and it's soon obvious that both Bobby and Penny are essential to Alma's health and spirits. Eva, meanwhile, in disturbing reveries, comes to grips with traumatic memories of the death of a dear friend, by her husband, and with internal battles concerning the claims of art vs. moola. Eva tends to be curt with Bobby, but then her college-age daughter, Melissa, arrives for Christmas, and before long all the women are intensely important to one another. And there are good men - good, good men - around. Just when the happy household seems solidified, however, in comes Joe - armed, dangerous, and lunatic....

For Intrycksflikka, via Apolonia and an M-bag.

Received for Intrycksflikka's M-bag. I will probably be sending it out in the next month or so. I will update the relay thread once it's been mailed.

I've been on vacation for the last two weeks. When I came home, I found a note saying that I had a letter waiting for me in the PO. Got a real surprise since I found out it was the M-bag. :) Thank you to both EllyMae58 and Apolonia!

Reserved for Deepswamp in Sweden as part of my RABCK project during autumn 2006.

This was a totally wonderful book. I've read earlier this year the book Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen and it was similar to this one. I think that this is a book that will stay inside of me for a long time, just as Black and Blue :-)

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Sending to deepswamp in Sweden. Enjoy the book!

Arrived safe yesterday.Thanks Intrycksflikka! Looking forward to read it!

Have just started to read, and I like what I read so far. This will be my book before christmas this year!

This story of domestic violence was as true as anything happening in the world today. I´ve lived with the three women in the book in my thougts for some days and the end of the strory was exciting!
Thanks!

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Happy reading!

This book was a nice find in my mailbox today.
Thank you so much, Deepswamp! I'm looking forward to reading it! :)

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