December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 26m
English
Toni emerged from her hairdressing appointment to find her ex-boyfriend, Frank, a violent young man who once put her in the emergency room with a broken rib, sitting across the street on a bench. Walking quickly to her car, Toni, hands shaking, fumbled to find the release lock. Once inside, she locked all the doors and sped off. This was the fourth time in the last week that Frank had found out where she was going. She headed toward her friend Claire’s house, checking in the rearview mirror the whole way to see if she spotted Frank’s car. She deliberately made several wrong turns and circled the block three times to ensure no one was following her. Two hours later and feeling much better from her visit with her friend, ...