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Where You End and I Begin: A Memoir

Hardback | English

By (author): Leah McLaren

When eight-year-old Leah''s parents get divorced, her mother, Cessie, flees her conventional life as a suburban housewife in search of a glamorous big city career in journalism. In the chaotic years that follow Cessie lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the next, with her adoring daughter in tow. Cessie describes her parenting style as ''benign neglect'' and their family motto ''Commitment sucks the life right out of you'' is tacked up on every rental fridge.

In the aftermath of a disturbing sexual experience at a pool party, Leah finds herself crippled with anxiety. When she confides in her mother, Cessie makes an astonishing disclosure in turn, one that alters everything: from the age of twelve to fifteen she was in a clandestine relationship with her middle-aged, married riding instructor. The damage inflicted by the ''Horseman'', Cessie explains, is the reason for all her regrettable life choices - marriage, divorce and even motherhood itself.

Both women spend the ensuing decades haunted by the spectre of the Horseman, until they decide to investigate what became of him - an ill-conceived quest that will test the bonds of love and redefine their relationship forever.

Written with unflinching candour and wit, Where You End and I Begin explores the dark reverberations of victim narratives and the power of filial love.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 07 Jul 2022

Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 360g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jul 2022
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529373691

About Leah McLaren

Leah McLaren is an award-winning author and journalist. Her two novels The Continuity Girl (2007) and A Better Man (2015) have been published in half a dozen countries and translated into several languages. Leah began her career as a columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail where she spent a decade on staff and was posted to the London bureau. She then spent ten years as the London-based Europe correspondent for Maclean''s. Her long-form investigative work and essays have been published around the world in outlets including The Guardian The Observer Magazine The Spectator The Sunday Times Style Magazine The Toronto Star Toronto Life and elsewhere. She''s been nominated for multiple National Newspaper Awards and National Magazine Awards and won gold medals in the long features category. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and adapted to film television and radio. Leah was born and raised in Toronto and rural Ontario. Today she lives in North West London with her husband three boys and Thomas Cromwell a ruthless tabby ratter.

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