Say you Love Me is a Harrowing story exploring the life long trauma of parental sexual abuse. Delving into each different charactor Husband grips the reader into the repelling, mulit-dimensional lives each affected in their own way from the abuse.
So many issues are raised through out the book, both obvious and implied, including the rold of adoptive parents in the aftermath of abuse, life-long damage and coping strategies and retrubution and forgiveness.
Two brothers, both very different, cope with the childhood abuse only one of them had to endure at the hands of their father. Not lacking love from their mother, but the vital protection she should have provided them they have to learn to cope in their own ways. Each charactor endures abuse in one form or another and even after they have been removed from the situation they seem never to have the closure they so desparately crave.
Husband has highlighted a situation none of us really want to accept happens and yet does it in such an impartial vocabulary as to make it even more horiffic. She opens many doors to a world most of us can never understand but can only feel repulsion towards those who abuse and tourture.
From a personal perspective I found the neighbour's charactors very frustrating, although they knoew abuse was happening (although not to the extent to which it was) they didn't inform the athorities. I think this is a lesson to us all that sometimes imnding one's own business in all cases is not always the right thing to do.
Husband has written other novels including The Boy I Love and it's sequal Paper Moon
7/10 - a very harrowing read.
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