A Cupboard Full of Coats, (Paperback)

from whitreidtan

What would you do if you opened the door to find a man you hadn't seen in 14 years standing on your doorstep, a man who disappeared from your sixteen year old life? What if you had loved him with every fiber of your teenaged self? What if the last night you saw him was the night your mother died,...

from Donna828

Jinx lives up to her name. We find out on the first page that she killed her mother 14 years ago. Life since than hasn't been kind to her. She has a strained relationship with her 4-year-old son who lives with his father... "the capacity to hate and hurt was bigger inside me than any capacity to ...

from mcelhra

This was a very dark book and Jinx was a very damaged main character and narrator. Jinx and Lemon spend the weekend sharing their perspectives on Jinx's mother's murder with each other. Through flashbacks, it becomes apparent how Jinx grew into such a cold, almost robotic adult. She is not a good...

from Her_Royal_Orangeness

"A Cupboard Full of Coats" is a book about domestic violence that focuses more on thoughts and actions than plot. What do you do and think and say when your best friend is an abuser? What do you do and think and say when your mother is the abused? And what do you do with all the secrets and the p...

from RidgewayGirl

This book begins with an older man knocking on a London door in the pouring rain. The man is from the worst part of Jinx's past, the part involving her stepfather and the murder of her mother, for which she feels responsible. Lemon was her stepfather's best friend. Together, over the following da...