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For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Incarcerated men negotiate expectations of gender performance and their relationships with the mothers of their children during incarceration.These negotiations around masculinity and fatherhood inside prison provide insight into gender inequity, racism, and ideological underpinnings of security practices.
With the death of a mother and the abduction of a young girl, Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence and terror of childhood.
‘Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell’ Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister A searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of autism – and its reaching effects on a whole family.
Newly single after calling off her wedding, sex-crimes prosecutor Anna Curtis is summoned home to Michigan when her old high school coach--a hometown hero--is killed in a fiery car crash. But Anna isn't there to prosecute a crime, she's home to support her innocent sister, Jody, who has been wrongfully accused of the coach's murder. But maybe Jody isn't so innocent after all? The police are convinced that Jody was having an affair with the married coach and killed him out of jealousy. As Anna investigates with the help of her childhood friend Cooper Bolden--an Afghan War veteran with a secret of his own--she slowly peels back the faȧde of her all-American hometown and discovers that no one is telling the truth about the coach, not even the people she thought she knew best. When the town rallies against them, threatening not just Jody's liberty but both sisters' lives, Anna resolves to do everything she can to save her sister and defend the only family she has left.
Julia thought she had it all, but who could have guessed that her world would be turned upside down. Abortion. Disfigurement. A failed career. A tarnished reputation. She could not figure out how things turned out like this. Maybe it was all because of Curtis! After all, love could destroy a woman’s life.
Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Simon & Schuster.
A HOUSE FULL OF DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO'LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. 'This tense and beautifully written thriller gripped me from the first page and didn't let go. Intriguing and eerie, climaxing in an edge-of-the-seat finale that had me furiously turning the pages. A must read!' Sarah Pearse, bestselling author of THE SANATORIUM THE BONES COME FIRST... When single mother Alex arrives at her new home with her two children, she can finally breathe easy. Pine Ridge, a rural community near the Australian coast, is beautiful, peaceful and most importantly, far away from the trauma she left behind. NEXT, A DOLL... Then unexplained boxes start arriving at the house, and Alex's t...
Anna Snow and her little brother Curtis are on the move again, to yet another foster family. After the abuse she’s suffered, she doesn’t think it could get any worse, but it can. Curtis is ripped from her arms, sent to a different family. This is more than just another goodbye. This is losing the only person who’s been her constant companion, the one person she loves. Powerless, all she can do is hold the teddy bear he dropped and cry as he’s dragged out of her life. Anna is now truly alone. What will she do without her brother? It isn’t long before she’s moved again, and then again, from family to family, each time stuffing everything in her life into a garbage bag, feeling rejected, as if she herself is trash that nobody wants. Anna’s journey continues in this third book of the series, a riveting story of loss, pain, and sorrow as she navigates her garbage bag life as a child in the foster care system.
'Wonderfully haunting' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry 'Extremely well written, fantastic' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange 'Conjuring up... Twin Peaks and Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects' Stylist 'Spellbinding.... a stunning debut' Woman & Home 'Irresistible' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train 'Clever, twisting' FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine 'A nuanced thriller that will haunt you long after you race through its pages' Grazia 'One of the most exciting debuts of the year' Sunday Express ________________________________________________ When Emma leaves her friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, ben...
'A superbly inventive and magical debut' - Piers Torday 'Beautifully written and filled with unforgettable characters ... a diamond of a book' - Ross MacKenzie 'Utterly original, thrilling, strange and cracking good fun ... every chapter is packed full of wild imagination' - Liz Hyder Catch the wind. Find your freedom. A riveting, magical adventure set deep underneath a richly reimagined London for 9+ readers. Kidnapped and forced to shovel coal underneath a half-bombed, blackened power station, 12-year-old Luke's life is miserable. Then, he discovers he can see things others can't. Ghostly things. Specifically, a ghost-girl named Alma. Alma, who can ride clouds through the night sky and bend their shape to her will, befriends Luke. And with Alma's help, Luke discovers he is in fact a rare being - half-human and half-something else ... Then Luke learns the terrible truth of why children are being kidnapped and forced to work in the power station, and he becomes even more desperate to escape. Can Luke find out who he really is ... and find his freedom?