Don't resign yourself to a life of TV dinners and carpet slippers. One sniff of this book will have you falling in love all over again.

Ellen Prescott writes with a literary flair that adds to the power of her story. She hits the reader in the gut on page 1: "In 1982, when my daughters were four and one, I decided to kill them . . . I was so in love with them, there at the door of their bedroom, that all I could think of was murder." You'd have to be anesthetized to put the book down at this point

I recommend it to anyone, including most physicians who need a better understanding of human responses to suffering

Well paced and at times excruciatingly well written

This is a grip­ping story which I read from start to fin­ish at one sitting

A deeply moving and disturbing story of a woman winning the battle to create a safe place for herself and her family

Powerful and well-written

The saddest story I have ever heard... it touches levels of human agony far beyond the reach of everyday journalism

This book brought tears to my eyes several times... but despite the tragedy at the heart of the book, there are flashes of humour

Deeply moving

A searingly honest book

Extremely honest and candid

(A) testament to the ferocity of maternal love