Sleeping with the Enemy - Softcover

Price, Nancy J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0515096385 ISBN 13: 9780515096385

Publisher: Jove, 1988

Synopsis

'Sara slept with the enemy but survived. She was one of the lucky ones. Any woman contemplating leaving a violent relationship would do well to read this book' - Erin Pizzey. She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she ever met. Her husband.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Price is a founder and editor-in-chief of the SheKnows Network and the following websites: Myria, Pregnancy & Baby, GeoParent, Showing at PregnancyFashion.com, and Chef Mom. She is also one of the founding editors of ePregnancy.com and ePregnancy magazine. Her work has appeared in Parents, Parents Expecting, Baby, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications.

From Publishers Weekly:

This powerful, moving and well-controlled thriller follows the metamorphosis of Sara Burney, an abused, submissive and battered wife whose daily goal has been to keep her brutish husband Martin from still more violent assaults. Presumed dead when she is swept overboard from a sailboat in Manhasset Bay, Sara seizes the opportunity to escape from her husband and begin a new life. She rides the bus from Boston to the small university town of Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she finds a job as caretaker to Dr. Hazel Channing, a professor who is recovering from an accident that has left her both mute and paralyzed. Sara (now known as Laura Pray) gradually edges into independence. She reads Henry James to Dr. Channing and awakes her to sprightly dialogue. She finds the strength and the wisdom to counsel another woman in crisis. And she begins a tentative but promising relationship with her next-door neighbor, a perceptive professor. But her desire to visit her mother in a nursing home enables her murderously psychotic husband to trace her. Reveries, dreams and images of drowning form an effective counterpoint to chilling scenes of observation and pursuit, and the author of An Accomplished Woman brings the novel to a triumphant conclusion. Major ad/promo; film rights to Leonard Goldberg Productions.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Jove
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0515096385
• ISBN 13: 9780515096385
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback