The two women were quiet for a while.
'Why did you do it?'
Sue didn't answer. Instead she lay back on the bunk and tried to empty her mind. She had never told anyone what had led up to the murder and she didn't think she ever would. There were too many
people involved, too many secrets to keep.
Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashes her husband's skull with a claw hammer in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she's done it to protect her four children. At last, they are safe from harm. When she is celled up with murderess Matilda Enderby, their fates become inextricably linked. And no one - least of all Sue - could have predicted the consequences...