Margaret, Are You Leaving?
Sydney, 2001. Now in her forties, Maggie Wolf has built a good life for herself, surrounded by good people. She has tried hard to leave her painful past behind her. But when her beloved brother Lucas calls with news of their adopted mother’s death, he also delivers a bombshell about Maggie’s birth mother. So begins an uncertain journey to trace her mother’s true identity, a quest that brings fresh heartbreak but also unexpected joy.
Deeply empathetic and uncommonly witty and wise, Margaret, Are You Leaving? is a novel about love, friendship and self-discovery that celebrates the messiness of family and the beauty of life in all its heartache and wonder.
Deeply empathetic and uncommonly witty and wise, Margaret, Are You Leaving? is a novel about love, friendship and self-discovery that celebrates the messiness of family and the beauty of life in all its heartache and wonder.
Reviews
Such a warm, generous, uplifting book. Full of heart and wisdom, emotionally sharp and funny in a very human way
An extraordinary story of mothers and daughters . . . Reveals the human condition in all its flawed glory
An irresistible story of family, friendship and community, of mothers and daughters and bonds that time and tragedy cannot erase. Beautiful and heart-rending, it asks that most profound of questions: was I loved?
A tender and true story about friendship and families lost and found
What a gift Dianne Yarwood is to Australian literature. Margaret, Are You Leaving? is powerful and poignant . . . Devastating and tender
Thoughtful and quietly affecting, Margaret, Are You Leaving? is an earnest tribute to relationships of all kinds - mothers, friends, lovers, pets - and will resonate with readers of Charlotte Wood's The Weekend