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2000s: Three little girls set off to school one sunny May morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead.
2000s: Three little girls set off to school one sunny May morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead.
Fifteen years later, Alison and Kitty are living separate lives. Kitty lives in a care home. She can’t speak, and she has no memory of the accident that put her here, or her life before it.
Art teacher Alison looks fine on the surface. But the surface is a lie. When a job in a prison comes up she decides to take it – this is her chance to finally make things right.
But someone is watching Kitty and Alison.
Someone who wants revenge for what happened that day.
And only another life will do…
A hospice and a prison
The locations in this novel aren’t the nicest – to be surrounded by prisoners you’re trying to help with their reading and writing skills to a place where a former friend who is now mentally ill is in a home. Kitty had a road accident and has a massive brain injury as a result. Both uncomfortable especially the prison where Alison is a newcomer, where she receives threats and worse. She’s only applied for a post at a local open prison as she hopes her skills can help others. But the prison environment is chilling and cold and the sense of threat is omnipresent.
There is no Archville prison (thankfully) but it’s surprising how many prisons are so close to London! This is a dark dark place these two women are now living in:
“It doesn’t hurt enough. Never does. For it’s the cuts we hide inside that really do the damage.”
Author/Guide: Jane Corry Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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