Post by JimO on May 8, 2018 7:35:20 GMT -5
All comments welcome guys - am off to go find three others to offer some support. Best, Jim
Dear Kombatants,
In PROMISE ME I MEAN IT, the taut female perspective of HAUSFRAU meets considered retribution from THE CHILDREN ACT and THE SILENT WIFE in an upmarket domestic noir complete at 76,000 words.
Each time Max breaks a promise, she punishes herself with a new, tougher oath, and carves a permanent score into her skin. She wrote her first vow the day her brother died...Never cry. Not when her father blamed and beat her, or when her mother turned away from the screams.
But no promise or punishment may prove big enough after her husband is arrested for grooming a schoolgirl, and Social Services falsely accuse Max of collusion, before snatching her six-year-old son into care. When the bank comes knocking for the money her husband’s borrowed to fund his secret life, Max is forced to work every spare hour nursing at the local hospital to prevent a fire-sale of the family home.
Her promises escalate until self-harm threatens to engulf her completely. She devises one last vow to prove herself worthy of winning back her little boy, an unthinkable oath she simply cannot break for fear of cutting too deeply: Punish the hurters, starting with the killer she's just treated in cubicle two.
Dear Kombatants,
In PROMISE ME I MEAN IT, the taut female perspective of HAUSFRAU meets considered retribution from THE CHILDREN ACT and THE SILENT WIFE in an upmarket domestic noir complete at 76,000 words.
Each time Max breaks a promise, she punishes herself with a new, tougher oath, and carves a permanent score into her skin. She wrote her first vow the day her brother died...Never cry. Not when her father blamed and beat her, or when her mother turned away from the screams.
But no promise or punishment may prove big enough after her husband is arrested for grooming a schoolgirl, and Social Services falsely accuse Max of collusion, before snatching her six-year-old son into care. When the bank comes knocking for the money her husband’s borrowed to fund his secret life, Max is forced to work every spare hour nursing at the local hospital to prevent a fire-sale of the family home.
Her promises escalate until self-harm threatens to engulf her completely. She devises one last vow to prove herself worthy of winning back her little boy, an unthinkable oath she simply cannot break for fear of cutting too deeply: Punish the hurters, starting with the killer she's just treated in cubicle two.
