Sherry Mackay's Reviews > Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

Excellent read. Wow what a mother she was. And what a fascinating person. To lug 4 children around Europe mostly on her own, and without a lot of cash seems amazing and perhaps even foolhardy. But her children seemed to have thrived, as did she. The book ends abruptly with the death of her eldest daughter - as an adult with AIDS-which is a sudden and heartbreaking end to this somewhat Swallows and Amazons type adventure. I am looking forward to reading her next book - my life as a wife.