The Rest of Us - Softcover

‘Ms Mitchard is blessed with a surplus of raw, vigorous talent’
Kaye Gibbons, author of Charms for the Easy Life

‘So well observed and perceptive it’s hard to stay away from... masterfully paced’
Los Angeles Times

The writer who created the international runaway bestselling novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, now reveals her insights into the complexities and riddles of everyday life, in a voice that is passionate, wise, and unmistakably her own.

For ten years of Sunday mornings, readers of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s newspaper column, ‘The Rest of Us’, have been calling their families and friends to say, ‘See? That’s exactly what I meant!’ Now syndicated nationwide, Mitchard’s clear-eyed takes on everyday life in process are described over and over as ‘a letter from home’, ‘the best friend I can really count on’ and ‘the kind of story you keep under your pillow’.

In this wise and sparkling collection, her longtime readers and fans of her bestselling novel The Deep End of the Ocean can share the exuberant wisdom of a woman and writer who has seen it all. Bringing together many years of writing and living, spanning everything from garage sales to the ups and downs of the life of the long-haul single mother, Mitchard concocts a graceful blend of humour, vinegar and eloquence that reminds us that no matter how we change or how far we range, we are all ‘the rest of us’.