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- C & R Crime
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery
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 Letters To My Daughter's Killer
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Praise for Cath Staincliffe: An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout - Daily Telegraph
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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
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Praise for Cath Staincliffe: Stunning - Ann Cleeves
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Praise for Cath Staincliffe: Complex and satisfying - Sunday Times
Cath Staincliffe
Cath Staincliffe was brought up in Bradford and went to university in Birmingham, after which she moved to Manchester. She started writing whilst on maternity leave with her first child, attending writers' workshops and publishing poetry and short stories in anthologies. Looking for Trouble, published by the Manchester publisher Crocus, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Award for Best First Novel and serialised on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour.
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