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|summary=It could have been maudlin, but was surprisingly upbeat. Despite a bit too much introspection in places, this is a positive account of how each member of a family starts coming to terms with a terrible tragedy.

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Maggie and Bill had a wonderful, happy family until tragedy struck, nearly a year before the story opens. The blurb on the back of the book says exactly what this tragedy was, but it's not explained until several chapters into the book. It would have made more powerful reading had I not known what had caused the family to break up.