Ciara escapes an abusive husband with her daughters and tries to create a safe home.
Roisin O'Donnell's premise looks beyond the moment of departure to the work required afterwards. Housing insecurity and daily responsibilities make freedom materially complicated. Choose this for socially attentive fiction about endurance, care and the distance between leaving danger and having a reliable place to live.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
