Without a Backward Glance

by Veitch, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780452289475
• ISBN10: 0452289475
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-24
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

A new voice in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve Christmas Eve 1967: the night the lives of the McDonald children, Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith, changed forever. Th eir mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy more lights for the tree. Instead, she boarded a plane bound for London, leaving the children with their father and the gnawing question: Why did their mother abandon them? Over the years the siblings have become practiced in concealing their pain, remaining close into adulthood and forming their own families. But long-closed wounds are reopened and secrets that each sibling has locked away come to light, as their father progresses into dementia and James encounters Rosemarie after nearly forty years of her absence. Veitch’s family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.

Author Biography

Kate Veitch was born in Australia. She has written for the Sydney Morning Herald and Vogue Australia and she produced -ôTheir Brilliant Careers,-ö a series on women writers for Australia-'s Radio National. She splits her time between rural Australia and New York City. Without a Backward Glance is her first novel, and was a bestseller in Australia and Germany.