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My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss ... One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks ... My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I lost my husband.' When Maggie's vibrant young husband, father to a five-year-old daughter and an unborn son, dies tragically, Maggie is left widowed and due to give birth three months later to their second child. Then her beloved mother, backbone of the family, mother to three children, grandmother to two, dies suddenly of aggressive cancer. In two short years, Maggie's life has shattered. After a year, she gives up trying to juggle single motherhood and the demands of an academic career and returns with her children to the family farm in central western New South Wales to take stock and catch a breath. The farm becomes a redemptive, healing place for Maggie and her children as they battle the heat and drought that only the Australian landscape can offer. She throws herself into the horses, sheep, ducks and chickens and slowly, finally, realises she has found a new shape for herself. Written by a brilliant new talent, WHEN IT RAINS is a meditation on grief and the vagaries of the human condition, and a stunning memoir about piecing back together a life, and moving forward, one step at a time.
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Maggie MacKellar was born in 1973. She has published two books on the history of settlement in Australia and Canada. She now lives in central western New South Wales with her two children.
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When It Rains
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 226 pages. Text lightly tanned My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss . . . One is easy for people t o recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in ei ght weeks . . . My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I lost my husband.When Maggie's vibrant young husband, father to a five-year-old daught er and an unborn son, dies tragically, Maggie is left widowed and due to give bi rth three months later to their second child. Then her beloved mother, backbone of the family, mother to three children andgrandmother to two, dies suddenly o f aggressive cancer. In two short years, Maggie's life has shattered. After a ye ar, she gives up trying to juggle single motherhood and the demands of an academ ic career and returns with her children to the family farm in central western Ne w South Wales to take stock and catch a breath. The farm becomes a redemptive, h ealing place for Maggie and her children as they battle the heat and drought tha t only the Australian landscape can offer. She throws herself into the horses, s heep, ducks, and chickens and slowly, finally, realizes she has found a new shap e for herself. Written by a brilliant new talent, When It Rains is a meditation on grief and the vagaries of the human condition, and a stunning memoir about pi ecing back together a life, and moving forward, one step at a time. Seller Inventory # 6759p
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