{"product_id":"when-it-rains-maggie-mackellar-9781742752273","title":"When It Rains","description":"\u003ci\u003eMy body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss . . . One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks . . . 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.\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and 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, realizes she has found a new shape for herself. Written by a brilliant new talent, \u003ci\u003eWhen It Rains\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on grief and the vagaries of the human condition, and a stunning memoir about piecing back together a life, and moving forward, one step at a time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie Mackellar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1742752276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781742752273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Maggie Mackellar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48748352897279,"sku":"9781742752273","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-it-rains-maggie-mackellar-9781742752273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}