In February 1989, Sara Thornton was jailed for life for killing her violent, alcoholic husband. 18 months later, her appeal was turned down. In the same week, Joseph McGrail walked free from court, having murdered his alcoholic wife, a woman who, in the words of the judge "would have tried the patience of a saint". This prompted Sara to go on hunger strike and for women's groups everywhere to campaign for her release. Now a cause celebre, her case focuses attention on battered and abused women whose cries for help have for so long been ignored. This is her story: of her privileged but emotionally deprived childhood and her marriage to Malcolm Thornton, an ex-policeman, whose accelerating spiral of drunken brutality, and his threats to kill both Sara and her daughter, provoked her to one last desperate act.
- ISBN10 0575055812
- ISBN13 9780575055810
- Publish Date 13 May 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English