The Women

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The Women is a brilliant novel by bestseller Jacqui Rose. Shining a light on the intense power struggles inside a prison, where everything is to play for. Welcome to HMP Ashcroft.Run by a bent governor determined to impose his will with an iron fist, it might as well be hell for its inmates. Fights and favours are currency for survival, but nothing in life is free; thereâ always a price to be paid, and for some itâ high.Amy has been serving a five-year stretch for money laundering and is about to be released on parole, but is terrified of her abusive husband waiting on the outside.Ness is pregnant by her pimp and serving a ten-year stretch for stabbing him, but just wants to be reunited with her two daughters. With no money, though, how are they going to survive?Tess is the top dog, running the drugs and girls as hard on the inside as she did on the outside, but the women are getting tired of her . . . and sheâ not about to give up her title without a fight.Whether serving time on the inside or outside, guilty or not, one thing is for certain: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned . . .

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