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For Life

By Ailsa Piper

Book information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2024
ISBN
9781761189364, 9781761470868
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
851 kB (871870 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-09-30 23:35:33

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An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels, for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird.After I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid-air. It looks like pure pleasure, suspended, its wings barely beating. If those who came before really do dissolve and dissipate, and if their cells really are all around us, then that bird is held there by Mum and Peter and my grandmother Molly and Ning and Grandpa and billions of others of the long-dead. The osprey, on its updraft, is kept aloft by absences. Perhaps I am too.When her husband of nearly thirty years doesn't answer his phone, Ailsa Piper knows something is wrong. She calls their neighbour to ask him to check. Minutes later, he rings back. 'Oh, Ailsa. I'm so sorry,' he says. Five words to change a life...Wanting to flee her shattered world in Melbourne, Ailsa migrates north. She rejects all...

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