By Kelly Rimmer
Copy courtesy of Hachette Australia
The Year is 1996 and Beth is struggling. Everything in her life seems to be so difficult. Her father has been diagnosed with dementia and she, along with her 3 siblings, are watching him slowly slip away from them. At the same
This leaves the worry of what to do with the family home that they have all grown up in since their Mother was killed in a car accident when they were small children. Do they keep the home and rent it out or do they sell it? Either way, they must make sure they have the funds to cover the costs of the care home and the house must be packed up and cleaned out. Beth extends her parental leave from work and arranges with her Mother-in-law to care for her son Noah while she gets started on packing up the house.

She discovers that oddly the door to the attic has had a lock placed on it and hunt as she might a key can not be found. Beth enlists the help of her sister Ruth who sends a couple of workers over to remove the door. Once they have access to the Attic they are in shock to see that the room is full of rubbish, painting canvases, dirty dishes, etc. Its a mess and they are stunned to think their Dad had been hoarding rubbish in there, and they had no idea how long he’d been doing it.
As Beth tackles clearing out the attic she stumbles upon handwritten notes on yellow paper. These notes she works out were written by her Mother and they show that she had struggled with a deep depression. Beth uncovers more notes and fears that perhaps the story of the car accident was not 100% true. The notes start to indicate that perhaps her mother had taken steps to end her own life.
Beth’s memories of her mother are of a loving, warm, and caring woman. The man that her mother talks about in the letters doesn’t sound like the dad they love, who battled on his own to be the rock the four children needed. As more and more notes are discovered more and more of the story unfolds, but still there are unanswered questions.
Author, Kelly Rimmer will grab you by the heart and make you feel each
Postnatal depression is something we all should be more aware of, and we all need to learn not to shun those battling with mental illness. It’s real and it’s a place that any of us could slide into. We need to be more open in discussing these issues.
An awesome read that will have you wanting more and more of Kelly Rimmer and her wonderful way of writing.
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Im a Mum of 3 beautiful girls.
An avid reader that loves to travel but lacks the funds to venture far and wide constantly. A perfumeaholic with an addiction to beauty and skincare.
If not found with my head in a book or on a plane I can be found spending hours upon hour in Doctors and Hospital waiting rooms as part of my job as a Carer