Because of You I Am

‘Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run…’When Alice was ten, she shot rabbits with her father. Thirty five years later, she’s after bigger prey.Life hasn’t been kind to Alice. Abandoned by her father at fourteen, she ran away two years later to 60s London, embracing all the darkness it had to offer when hopes of finding her father are lost. But that was the past and at thirty-seven she meets and marries Jake. They have a son, Adam, and life is perfection. But when he is killed in an accident six years later, her entire life comes crashing down. Buried under the weight of grief and guilt, Alice sets out on a path for revenge on the mother who killed her child. Teetering on the brink of sanity, she refuses to acknowledge the truth: what really happened on the way through the park on the day Adam died? The dominoes fall, sending Alice into dark places. Does forgiveness wait for her on the other side or will she never find her way back to the light? 

Sandy Hogarth lives in the Yorkshire Dales. She loves exploring characters under stress, relationships, and lonely places. Because of You I am was long-listed for The 2019 Cinnamon Literature Prize. She is also the author of The Glass Girl, and is well into her third novel.