Erin M. (ErinMc) reviewed on 4/4/2006 + 373 more book reviews

raised in a large,loving Irish Catholic family,Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When,at the age eighteen,she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh,a dadhing veteran of the Air Force,she has no idea that she is about to begin a relationship that is doomed from the start. Their many years of marriage are filled with Jack's drunken rages followed by morning-after remose,and scenes of escalating violence witnessed by children too terrified to speak out lest they become Jack's next victims.

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