Seventeen year old Maggie had big dreams for her future.
Maggie was training for the Olympics. Maggie was a great
swimmer and should make the team with no problem. The only
problem is that she met Bill. They fall deeply in love and
Maggie finds out that she is pregnant. They get married
and both of their dreams are done. Bill was going to go on
to college to make something of himself.
Fast forward twenty years. Maggie is a stay at home mom to
their three children. Jake is the oldest, Aly the middle
child and Stan is the baby. Bill works for his father, not
what he had wanted for his future, but he is happy at his
job. Jake and his friends have decided that before they
head off to collage, they are going to take a trip to
several different countries. Three days after Christmas,
tragedy strikes. Jake is killed in a tsunami. Their lives
are shattered. Maggie can't get over the loss of her first
born. Bill has no idea what to do.
Their marriage can't survive. Bill decides it is time for
him to move out and try to move on with his life. The loss
of her oldest child is putting a wedge between Maggie and
her other two
children.
Bill decides to go to a group that will try and help people
with their loss. Bill meets Carrie. Carrie lost her
husband Jason. At first they're just friends, trying to
help each other get though this. Soon Bill and Carrie
realize
that there is much more to their relationship.
Maggie in the mean time, still doesn't know how to get over
the death of Jake. Her daughter Aly is becoming more and
more remote. Liv, Maggie's sister comes for a visit.
Liv's real reason is to try and get this family back
together. Liv see's an ad in the local paper from a woman
named Kate. Kate has also had loss in her life, and is
looking to get a job with a family. Liv and Kate meet and
discuss what Liv would like Kate to take on.
Kate agrees. Now they just have to talk Maggie into it.
Maggie agrees and Kate becomes a godsend to this family.
Kate helps all of them come together and to terms with their
emotions.
At first BETWEEN A MOTHER AND HER CHILD is hard to get into
because you are watching a happy family be torn apart. Soon
you are sucked into the lives of this family. Losing a hard
one is hard, and Noble's book has you thinking is it better
to watch a loved one suffer and have a chance to say goodbye
or to lose them in a tragic accident. Having lost a nephew
in a car accident I don't think there is an easy answer to
this question, but as the saying goes start with baby steps.
Be sure to have the tissues handy when you read this
emotional story by Elizabeth Noble.
The love of a family is stronger than even the greatest tragedy . . . Twenty years after their impulsive marriage, Maggie and Bill Barrett are happily settled into the quiet comfort of their dream home with their three beautiful children. Then, the day after Christmas 2004, their world is shattered apart. Feeling isolated, Bill leaves to try to discover peace on his own. Maggie shuts down, incapable of connecting with her children or even sleeping most nights. Getting by in a daze, she has no idea how to begin picking up the pieces of their lives. Enter Kate: a woman who placed an ad in the paper to be a housekeeper and companion to a family. Kate has secrets and sorrows of her own, but her gentle caring has an immediate effect on the children—and on Maggie herself. When Bill announces that he’s fallen for another woman, Maggie realizes that she will have to fight to put her family back together. But after all theyâ €™ve been through, can anything truly fix their broken ties?
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