The Pumpkin Eater's Wife

What justification can there be for murder? The need to shed your toxic life before it destroys you? Is that reason enough for killing a sadistic spouse? In The Pumpkin Eater's Wife, Jeanie Connor decides exactly that. It's payback time for marital abuse that's been hidden behind her elegant front door for more than twenty years. After throwing her husband down the stairs and, for good measure, whacking him over the head with his favourite cricket bat, she needs to get away from Australia and fast.Identity theft provides an opportunity and she escapes to New Zealand. But deep within her psyche lurks the buried debris of her past which ravages her sleep and chafes at her memory banks. And it doesn't stop there. The woman whose passport she stole had baggage too, complications which entangle Jeanie in treachery and fraud, a fraught pathway which morphs into an expedition of self-discovery in her aspirations of building a new life.