My reading muscles needed something just like this. Compelling enough that you can breeze through it in 24 hours, but not so lightweight it hardly seems worth bothering with. It reminded me a lot of Barbara Vine. A reasonably ordinary middle aged woman, in some ways not very ordinary at all, is on trial and we spend most of the book figuring out how she got there and what for. Well written first person narration draws you in and doesn’t let you go. Lots of wry observations about the nature of families, relationships and women’s roles in them in particular made it a worthwhile read. I spent most of the book waiting for the blockbuster-twister that I thought had to be appearing from left-field, and was thankful when I could close the book up without having been clonked by it. A good one for sure.