Misconceptions by Sophie Townsend

This is a story of two women Ruth and Mim who have been best friends since they were twelve years old. Mim lives with Ruth and her husband Simon at their home in Glebe. They have been through a lot together over the course of their twenty year friendship including the tragic death of Ruth’s mother.
Ruth and Simon have been trying for a baby for the two years that Mim has lived with them and when Ruth finally conceives, they ask Mim to move out. This causes Mim to feel unwanted and abandoned, and she moves in with the teenage brother of a work colleague out of feelings of desperation and loneliness. When things go wrong at Mim’s work she decides to relocate to Broken Hill where her mother grew up.
This story deals with the issues of loss and grief and how relationships can inevitably be saved or be broken beyond repair.

Cathy.