Behind Closed Doors (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780446530293)

Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age 18, she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh, a dashing veteran of the Air Force, little does she know that she is about to begin a relationship that is doomed from the start.

Their many years of marriage are filled with Jack's drunken rages followed by morning-after remorse, and scenes of escalating violence witnessed by children too terrified to speak out lest they become Jack's next victims. A powerful story of a marriage begun with the best intentions but cursed by a legacy of violence that will have shocking consequences.

Author: Susan R. Sloan
ISBN-10: 0446530298
ISBN-13: 9780446530293
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2004
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.36w x 1.44d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/02/2004 pg. 54