On a glorious, if blisteringly hot, Saturday in August 2010, Margaret Thomson's world is suddenly shattered by the incomprehensible news that her twenty-two-year-old son, a medic in the army, has taken his life.
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit - and became a notorious tabloid story in the process.
The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey WatsonWith his young mother in and out of prison, Sammy has been in care since he was nine years old.
A brave and unblinkingly honest portrait of a young womans sensual and sexual awakening in the face of censure and repression, and her refusal to be held back by the constraints of her family, culture, and religion.
The Parrot's Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York.
