Book description
Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is
lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her
health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she
shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on.
As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call
summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is
dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes
face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer
suppress the nightmares of her childhood.
A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a
hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a
chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected
form pull her back from the brink?
Martha Long was born in Dublin in the early 1950s and still lives
there today. She calls herself a 'middle-aged matron' and has
successfully reared three children.
