February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
There are key things that put unusually sharp focus on our lives and bring into vivid perspective why we love the people we do. Kelly Corrigan’s awareness of a ‘middle place’ – the time when you are busy giving praise to your children and yet still seeking praise from your parents – took hold when she was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 36 and then discovered her father had late-stage prostate cancer. Her fear spread rapidly to her husband, her two young girls, her father and her mother. This New York Times bestseller is an instinctively fine-tuned, vibrant and funny account of Corrigan’s anger and frustration and reflections on her marriage, children and childhood.
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For Kelly Corrigan, family was everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. Yet even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place - 'that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap' - comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care.
But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast - and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her - and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.
The Middle Place features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
The Middle Place is available in Paperback
The Middle Place was written by Kelly Corrigan and published by Ebury Press
The Middle Place has 288 pages
£14.39
