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When It Rains : a Memoir by MacKellar, Maggie, 1973- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is When It Rains : a Memoir about?

"'My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss a One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks a 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.

Who reads When It Rains : a Memoir?

Author

MacKellar, Maggie, 1973-

Publisher

Random House Australia ; Publishers Group UK [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781741669602

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Psychology, Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14