'The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.'For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old son's face, Fr
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a
