A Needle in the Heart (2012)
“Tania thinks she could just get up and go, without waiting to hear a verdict. She’s only a witness when all’s said and done; it’s not as if she’s on trial. But that’s the way it feels. She’d stood up in the witness stand and said, ‘That’s him, that’s the one that did it. He’s the man I went off with that night, but he was just supposed to be giving me a lift home.’ Twelve pairs of eyes watching her from the jury benches. She couldn’t raise her eyes to look at one of those faces. They have all l...ooked at photographs of her body. Perhaps they know her better than she knows herself. Point at him, the lawyer had said, show us the man. And, when she couldn’t raise her arm because it felt as if a lead weight was tying it to the edge of the stand, the judge had repeated it: Point. Not nastily, but she could tell he was impatient; it had all gone on long enough. Memory is a fine thing, you own yourself if you’ve got memory, but there were some things she couldn’t remember; her whole mind had blanked out now about that night.MoreLess
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