| POLICE IN A SMALL MICHIGAN TOWN werestartled when a young woman, herchildren with her, drove to the jail tosurrender. " ! did it!...! clid itl " shescreamed, and told them she had set fireto the bedroom in which her husbandslept-then fled, leaving him to die inflames. Her name was Francine Hughes. This isthe story, exactly as it happened, of hercrime. What forced this " ordinary" housewifeto kill? What could justify such a horrify-ing act? This remarkable book revealsthe helplessness of a woman trapped inan intolerable marriage; how she be-came the virtual prisoner of an ever moreabusive and terrifying man. At twenty-nine Francine had enduredthirteen years with Mickey Hughes dur-ing which youthful romance and ideal-ism turned to disillusion and daily fear-then escalated to terror as eachoutbreak of Mickey s violence broughther closer to death. Flight was impossi-ble unless she abandoned her belovedchildren. This, she refused to do. Police,the courts, and social agencies blandlyturned aside her pleas for help. "Everydoor was closed. Every time ! failed !sank lower. Every day Mickey was comingcloser to killing me. It was like living witha bomb-waiting for it to explode." |
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