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NEW YORK TIMES ; BESTSELLER ; A ;memoir from the author of ; The Middle Place ; about ;mothers and daughters--a bond that can be ;nourishing, exasperating, ;and ;occasionally divine. ; When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom--with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism--would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly's life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler's checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. ; But it didn't turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That's how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother's voice was suddenly eve

Author

Kelly Corrigan

Publisher

New York: Ballantine Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781444725162

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, History

Rating

3.77 / 5 (10,996 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13