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When eight-year-old Leah's parents get divorced, her mother,
Cessie, flees her conventional life as a suburban housewife in
search of a glamorous big city career in journalism. In the chaotic
years that follow Cessie lurches from one apartment, job and toxic
romance to the next, with her adoring daughter in tow. Cessie
describes her parenting style as 'benign neglect' and their family
motto 'Commitment sucks the life right out of you' is tacked up on
every rental fridge. In the aftermath of a disturbing sexual
experience at a pool party, Leah finds herself crippled with
anxiety. When she confides in her mother, Cessie makes an
astonishing disclosure in turn, one that alters everything: from
the age of twelve to fifteen she was in a clandestine relationship
with her middle-aged, married riding instructor. The damage
inflicted by the 'Horseman', Cessie explains, is the reason for all
her regrettable life choices - marriage, divorce and even
motherhood itself. Both women spend the ensuing decades haunted by
the spectre of the Horseman, until they decide to investigate what
became of him - an ill-conceived quest that will test the bonds of
love and redefine their relationship forever. Written with
unflinching candour and wit, Where You End and I Begin explores the
dark reverberations of victim narratives and the power of filial
love.
Meredith Moore is the perfect continuity girl. An on-set script
supervisor, she is the error catcher, the one who makes sure every
take matches seamlessly with the one that came before it. But when
Meredith wakes up on her 35th birthday with a sudden acute yearning
for a baby, her personal sense of continuity is thrown into flux.
Determined not to marry, she impulsively flees humdrum Canada and
heads to London to reunite with her notoriously eccentric mother,
Irma, and accept a job on a famous producer's film. Her covert
plan: find a man with good genes, seduce him, and have a child--all
without him knowing, of course. But in her quest to become pregnant
on her own terms, she will accidentally discover a web of secrets
that will change the way she envisions both her professional life
and the nature of love.
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