Without a backward glance
by Kate Veitch
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On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the four McDonald children changed forever when their mother abandoned them. Forty years later they struggle to come to terms with their mother's reappearance, while at the same time their beloved father is progressing into dementia.
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Without a Backward Glance
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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"A Plume book."
"Previously published in a Viking Australia edition as Listen"--T.p. verso.
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Christmas Eve 1967: the night the lives of the McDonaldchildren, Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith, changedforever. Th eir mother, Rosemarie, told them she wasrunning out to buy more lights for the tree. Instead, sheboarded a plane bound for London, leaving the childrenwith their father and the gnawing question: Why did theirmother abandon them?Over the years the siblings have become practiced inconcealing their pain, remaining close into adulthood andforming their own families. But long-closed wounds arereopened and secrets that each sibling has locked awaycome to light, as their father progresses into dementia andJames encounters Rosemarie after nearly forty years of herabsence. Veitch's family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows,the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantlyprobes what it means to love and what it means to leave.
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