picked up in charity shop while looking for books to contribute to bookboxes heading my way.
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

read this in one sitting, very moving tale that made me cry on more than one occassion.my sister in law has asked to borrow this.

loaned this to my sister in law to read and return

Have read and am about to return to sister-in-law.
Fantastic book, very moving.

adding to permanant collection at least for now as i shall re-read this one at least once before releasing.

Reserved to go into box of books going to Esme-Weatherwax

Going off to Esme-Weatherwax sending via a friend in Northern Ireland to save on postage
Hope you enjoy

Thank you foxy for sending this on to me.