A Case of Wild Justice?
Yvonne Jerrold
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A Case of Wild Justice? was inspired by my mother's helpless rage after she was burgled by youngsters three times, in the space of a few months, while she was in the house. Faced with their boldness and their smug confidence that they could get away with it, simply because she was old and frail, she longed to be able to do something, but she felt powerless. This started me thinking, what if people refused to put up with it? What if they started fighting back?
This story (which is not about my mother) takes that suppressed rage to its logical conclusion!
You can read a chapter on my website: www.yvonnejerrold.com
Synopsis
The 'silver bees' are fighting back against crime and vandalism by turning themselves into walking booby traps. "If we can't save ourselves from attack," they say, "then at least the criminals won't escape either!"
Hannah Meadows, a kindly old lady with a fondness for hats, is tempted to join the silver bees. She is angry with her clever and manipulative grandson, Billy, whose gang attacked her sister's garden. Seeing how his behaviour is destroying his family, she knows she must do something.
Hannah has her own guilty secret and, as her past comes back to haunt her, she wrestles with her conscience. She hates violence of any kind but, how can she protect her family if she is not prepared to act?
Then there is Hannah's young neighbour, Declan, who is desperately in love with Billy's sister...
Reviews
"The build-up to the finale of this carefully plotted story is absorbingly brilliant. This book is a work of art and will easily earn the praise it shall undoubtedly receive." From a review by Mary Ann Smyth on www.Bookloons.com
"Right to the end, the tension... is kept up. This book made me reflect on my own attitudes to menaces in my community." From a review by Harry Goode, Secretary of Cambridge Writers
About the Author
My novels tend to focus on the inner lives of their characters - those hidden parts of their minds which even their nearest and dearest are unaware of - and on the dilemmas of people who feel they are trying to live in two different worlds at once.
I am intrigued by questions about how people see themselves. In this fast-changing world, what gives us our sense of belonging, or not belonging, to any place or group or culture?
I was born in Washington DC, educated in Dublin and Cambridge and now live in Cambridgeshire where I am planting a small woodland. You can see its progress on my website www.yvonnejerrold.com
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Format
Trade Paperback
312 pages pages
Author
Yvonne Jerrold
Publisher
Matador
Publication date
22nd September 2008
Author's Website
ISBN
9781906510718
