THE SON-IN-LAW
Book ID/图书代码： 05430011B49814
English Summary/英文概要： On a sharp winter’s morning, a man turns his back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his term. He’s lost almost everything: his career, his wife, the future he’d envisaged. All he has left are his three children.
Hannah has feared this day for almost four years - ever since Joseph Scott murdered her daughter Zoe. She and her husband have brought up the three children and kept alive the memory of their vibrant, talented mother.
Donald knows that sooner or later he must face his daughter’s killer. He mourns Zoe still, but his life has been given meaning by his grandchildren. Now though, he faces a new enemy; for the moment it’s his secret but in the end it will change all their lives and colour their decisions. The future is not what it seemed.
Scarlet is fourteen, and more than a sister to her little brothers. She remembers her mother’s crazy moods and her father’s despair; but they were a happy family on the good days. She saw her mum die and relives the moment every day.
Joseph is allowed contact by the court and, supervised initially, he painfully rebuilds a fragile relationship with his children. Eventually he applies to have them returned to him permanently. The children’s guardian and family therapists cannot agree on the right course. As the case draws towards judgement day, battle lines bristle with weaponry on each side.
Scarlet knows that whatever decision is made, it will be the wrong one. Her fragile world and that of her brothers is on the brink of shattering around them. If the nightmare is ever going to end, she has to take the law into her own hands. And she has a plan.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 终于，约瑟夫•斯科特(Joseph Scott)迎来了刑满释放的一天。他为此几乎一无所有，工作、妻子、未来全没了，他只剩下他的三个孩子。
自从4年前约瑟夫谋杀了自己的女儿以后，汉娜(Hannah)一直害怕着约瑟夫出狱的那天。他们夫妻二人抚养了三个孩子，然后只告诉他们母亲的事。
唐纳德(Donald)心里很明白，迟早有一天他要面对杀害自己女儿的凶手。他依然思念着女儿，但是孙辈的存在也给他的生活增添了不少意义。然而，随着约瑟夫的出狱，这个隐藏的秘密终将被揭穿，甚至还可能会改变他们一家的生活。
斯嘉丽(Scarlet)今年14岁，她要比弟弟们早熟。她记得母亲的歇斯底里以及父亲的绝望；但他们一家也有快乐的日子。她亲眼看到了母亲的死，并且在她心里留下了烙印，自此以后的每一天她都在回忆这一幕。
法庭允许约瑟夫暂时监管三个子女，然而他们的关系岌岌可危。但是最终他还是争得了子女所有的监护权。斯嘉丽清楚，无论做出什么样的决定，都将是错的。她和弟弟们的世界现在脆弱的不堪一击。如果生活真要如此决绝，她将自己拿起法律武器，捍卫自己。(XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold:UK, BC & ANZ: Allen and Unwin 2013 版权已售：英国，BC&ANZ：Allen and Unwin 2013
About the Author/作者介绍： 查瑞迪•诺曼（Charity Norman），生于乌干达，后来在约克郡及伯明翰长大。多年的旅行，使她成为了英格兰东北部一名专攻犯罪和家庭方面法律的大律师。同时，作为调解人，她总希望可以化干戈为玉帛。2002年，为了能多和孩子见面，不错过他们的成长，她选择暂时从法律界退出，并且举家搬到了新西兰。《解脱恩典》（FREEING GRACE ）是她的第一部长篇小说，目前她正在着手第二部。 Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years’ travel she became a barrister, specialising in crime and family law in the northeast of England. Also a mediator, she is passionate about the power of communication to slice through the knots. In 2002, realising that her three children had barely met her, she took a break from the law and moved with her family to New Zealand. FREEING GRACE is Charity’s first novel and she is now working on her second.
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