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Amanda Prowse

What Have I Done?



Kathryn Brooker is the headmaster's wife. While her husband spends his days disciplining unruly teenagers in the grand halls of Mountbriers Academy, Kathryn spends hers baking scones for her son's cricket match in a beautiful cottage in the manicured school grounds.

In the evenings, when her husband strides home to compliment her cooking and kiss her hello — ignoring jokes from their children about grown-up lovebirds — Kathryn Brooker is the very picture of a fulfilled wife and mother. Anyone who peered through the downstairs sash window at the four figures sat easily around their scrubbed-pine kitchen table would see a happy family without a care in the world. They would envy Kathryn her perfect life.

But they would be wrong. Kathryn is trapped in a nightmare. And she is about to do something to change it. Something only a truly desperate woman would do…
393 printed pages
Copyright owner
Head of Zeus
Publication year
2013
Publisher
Head of Zeus
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  • Abdull Yantumakihas quoted7 years ago
    I will gather up all the little pieces that you have chipped away, hidden in drawers, swept under the carpet and shoved behind cushions and I will rebuild myself. I will become all of the things that I thought I might. All the dreams I considered before you broke me, I will chase them all.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    Yes, she did seem happy, but we were only just beginning to scratch the surface and you know as well as I that often what we see on the outside is not always a true reflection of what is going on inside
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    I will gather up all the little pieces that you have chipped away, hidden in drawers, swept under the carpet and shoved behind cushions and I will rebuild myself. I will become all of the things that I thought I might. All the dreams I considered before you broke me, I will chase them all.

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