Trade Paperback
9780143786283
January 29, 2018
Bantam Australia
400 pages
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9780143786290
January 29, 2018
Random House Australia
400 pages
Part 1
Chapter 1
BRISBANE, 1998
The night her mother died, Maggie Rowe drove back through the quiet streets, over the dark river where lights lay untroubled and up the steep hill to her house, and there among the shadows saw a shape squatting on her doorstep.
‘No!’ she cried out against it. Not now! She spun the wheel, reversed without looking, jolted a tyre up over the kerb and clashed through the gears. The car lunged forward. In the rear- vision mirror she saw a glowing pinpoint flare and die.
Not now. After waking to a touch on the arm.
‘She’s gone, darling,’ said the nurse, and stood stroking Maggie’s hair.
Continue ReadingDiscuss the themes of motherhood and parental rights in Child of Mine with your book club.