I Came To Say Goodbye
Who is left behind when a family falls apart?
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It was four o'clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors.
Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child - and in a way, she was. She walked into the nursery, where a baby girl lay sleeping. The infant didn't wake when the woman placed her gently in the shopping bag she had brought with her.
There is CCTV footage of what happened next, and most Australians would have seen it, either on the internet or the news. The woman walked out to the car park, towards an old Corolla. For a moment, she held the child gently against her breast and, with her eyes closed, she smelled her. She then clipped the infant into the car, got in and drove off. That is where the footage ends.
It isn't where the story ends, however. It's not even where the story starts.
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Who is left behind when a family falls apart? Caroline Overington Will be our guest blogger this week, starting tomorrow!! I CAME TO SAY GOODBYE by Caroline Overington It was four o'clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors. Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child - and in a way, she was. She walked...
EVERY single time you read a story in the newspaper about a child murder, you can be sure that the journalists know a great deal more than they are telling you. Most reporters feel sick about it. They want to tell the truth, the whole truth, but there are new laws that make it impossible in almost every circumstance to show the faces of young children who have been killed, or even to use their...
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"It is the sort of book you read in two days, then talk about for weeks afterwards." - Australian Women's Weekly
"It is the sort of book you read in two days, then talk about for weeks afterwards." - Australian Women's Weekly
"With great commercial appeal, Overington has the potential to leave Jodi Picoult's sales trailing in her dust." - Bookseller & Publisher
"With great commercial appeal, Overington has the potential to leave Jodi Picoult's sales trailing in her dust." - Bookseller & Publisher
"A beautifully written novel ... An enthralling, redemptive book full of heart." - Who Magazine
"A beautifully written novel ... An enthralling, redemptive book full of heart." - Who Magazine
"A brilliant book ... will stay with you long after you read the last page." - Launceston Examiner
"A brilliant book ... will stay with you long after you read the last page." - Launceston Examiner
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