In February 1989, Sara Thornton was jailed for life for killing her violent, alcoholic husband. Eighteen 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. Here, for the first time, she tells 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. She is still in prison serving a life sentence.
- ISBN10 0575053356
- ISBN13 9780575053359
- Publish Date 24 September 1992
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English