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Letters To My Daughter's Killer

Cath Staincliffe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:17th Jul '14

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Can we ever forgive those who do us the gravest wrong?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ITV3 CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB

Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred, has only grown heavier with the passing of time, her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. Whether she can ever truly forgive him is another matter - but the letters are her last, best hope.

Letters To My Daughter's Killer exposes the aftermath of violent crime for an ordinary family and explores fundamental questions of crime and punishment. How do we deal with the very human desire for revenge? If we get justice does reconciliation follow? Can we really forgive those who do us the gravest wrong? Could you?

Praise for Cath Staincliffe: An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout * Daily Telegraph *
Praise for Cath Staincliffe: It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that. * Val McDermid *
Praise for Cath Staincliffe: Stunning * Ann Cleeves *
Praise for Cath Staincliffe: Complex and satisfying * Sunday Times *

  • Short-listed for Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award 2014 (UK)

ISBN: 9781780335711

Dimensions: 199mm x 167mm x 17mm

Weight: 202g

240 pages