Book description
King's Number One bestselling suspense novel, 'a compelling masterpiece' (Sunday Telegraph) about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past.
The sheets . . . had to be hung perfectly. She'd go to that window, year in and year out and yell at me: 'Six pins, now, Dolores! You…
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The way Stephen King is able to weave a one-person narrative into an un-put-downable tale is utterly brilliant, but the subject matter of this book is what I find to be the most profound.
Because King was looking at domestic abuse from the perspective of the abused and pulling in details that were previously left out of those narratives—and he was doing this long before those ideas had entered mainstream discourse.
This story shows how a hard-working woman loses option after option until there is only a single, unthinkable one left. And of the unfairness she faces in the aftermath.…
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