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St Joseph s is an inner-city jungle. Its
inhabitants ack restraint; they rage and roar
their frustrations.
Ruth Flemming is a wealthy volunteer
worker. She gives support to battered wives,
lonely old ladies, and one-parent families. In
her daily visits to the St Joseph s district she
meets clients whose husbands depart from
home as regularly as trains; towards other
women, other cities, into prison. It is not
really a problem she has ever expected to
face in her own life.
But Harry s disappearance reveals all the
gaps and omissions in Ruth s life. She has
used her husband as the whipping-boy for
all her secret fears and frustrations. She has
suspected him of treachery, but as she
confesses to Cassie, Tm a woman who can
live with suspicion, it s the confirmation of
it that destroys me.
Destruction has lately become a way of
life in St Joseph s. People are always tearing
things down, or digging them up. It is very
demoralising; and Ruth s dilemma is that of
the enthusiastic amateur who imagines that
her dedication can compensate for a lack of
professional skill. She makes many mistakes,
both in her personal life and in her dealings
with clients. But Ruth is a survivor. In the
end she will be stronger than Harry, tougher
than Mclnnes, the ruthless and feared
Detective Sergeant, and more competent
than her mother and Georgina.
Her final dilemma will be to find a way of
accepting love when it is offered to her.
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Leo days pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024