Published: 2020, Faber and Faber Genre: Fiction Themes: love, domestic violence, Trinidad, relationships My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤ If you distilled this story down to it's purest element, you would find a mother's love glistening strong and bright. A love that refuses to give up, even when life seemed intent on testing it to destruction. Set in Trinidad, this is the emotionally charged story of Betty, who finds herself trapped in an abusive marriage to Sunil, and although she can deal with his drunken violence against herself, a line is crossed when he starts to mistreat her little son Solo. Sunil was a good man when they married, with his dashing good looks and charming ways, but once he took to drinking regularly with his brother, it didn't take much for his temper to flare and she knew it wouldn't be long before her skin was bruised and sometimes bones broken. He was always sorry of course, and he knew a shady doctor who would patch Betty ba...