Refuge

"An excursion to Barbara Vineland - Gillian White handles her gruesome ingredients with control and intelligence." INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY A chilling depiction of revenge and the forces of evil Shelley, mother of various children by different fathers, loves all her kids with a fierce passion. She has always defended Joey, her eldest, when he seemed out of control. But an eight-week-old baby set alight in its pram by some rowdy youths - surely her Joey couldn't have been involved in that? In her heart she knows that he was there, although he protests his innocence. And when the police arrive and take him away for questioning, she has to endure the primitive hostility of a neighbourhood outraged by the death of an innocent little child.