'Still Breathing?'
- ISBN-10
- 152110428X
- ISBN-13
- 9781521104286
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-04-29
- Author
- August Smith
Description
From the author of TOP 3 book The Wrong Life: Still Breathing is a vivid, fresh and touching tale of how far women will go to protect their babies. It is one mother's daring escape from domestic violence, her struggle to stay hidden and the heartwrenching price she has to pay.Rose runs away from her abusive husband when he neglects her babies. As he slumps in a drunken stupor she holds a heavy frying pan above his head. Has she killed him or not? Who is she fleeing from, the police or her furious and cruel husband?When she rejects lesbian advances from the van driver who gives her a lift in the dark wet night, she and her children are thrown out onto the wild Yorkshire Moors. They are lost and hungry without shelter and without hope. But Rose is a mother. She calls upon the strength of all mothers who have to protect their children. Will this struggle lead her to a new life or to misery and starvation?
