Reconcilable Differences

Marriages End. Families Don't.

by Cate Cochran

tagged: divorce & separation, alternative family

Description

When Cate and her husband split, they divided the house so that he lived upstairs, she lived downstairs and the children floated inbetween. This book explores ten “succesfully failed” marriages where families reconfigure after divorce.

About the Author

Cate Cochran is a producer with CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition and lives in downtown Toronto, where she shares a house with her ex-husband, two teenage children and a dog. Born in Toronto, she has lived in Saint John, Montreal, and Ottawa, where she attended Carlton University. Cate was the art director for The Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine before becoming a writer, radio producer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Editorial Reviews

Her words resonated, making me admire Cochran and the other parents in her book all the more for forging a new path, complete with honest communication.

— Montreal Gazette

An inspiring book about families who buck conventional wisdom and structure their post-divorce lives in unusual ways.

— Herizons

The book marks a new way of looking at the post-divorce world at the very time the definition of family is being recast.

— Maclean's Magazine

Cochran offers a smorgasbord of tips and advice for readers and divorces - a must for the recent or potentially divorced.

— Midwest Book Review

The book is a lesson in mature adulthood.

— Sarah Hampson, The Globe and Mail

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