Author(s): Toryn Chapman

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Jillian Barrett has cared for her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, Elizabeth for five years, a trial now fast approaching its end. At her hospital bedside, Jillian sees her mother's grey toy cat, and relives the memory of those difficult years spent trying to accept her increasingly cryptic behaviour. What she can never know are the experiences that, seventy years ago, shaped her mother's life and to which she has been looking back. Left in a Depression-era orphanage, Elizabeth was forced to care for her young sister and brother, and endure an often brutal institution. The separate stories of past and present are linked in ways neither Jillian nor Elizabeth realize, and meet at last in a stunning climax that will make your heart sing.