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Perth
It was seven o’clock in the morning and I was cutting oranges for Payton’s soccer game when Adrian casually asked if I’d heard of nest parenting.
I paused and searched my memory. It sounded vaguely familiar—like I’d read about the concept online or heard it discussed in one of the many podcasts I listened to. Although I’m almost forty, I pride myself on my memory and, sure enough, I recalled there was a mum who had a kid in the year below at Saxon’s school who was nest parenting with her husband. Or rather ex-husband!
‘Yeah, what about it?’ I said, as I bent to get a large container from our Tupperware drawer.
Adrian took a sip of his coffee, then, ‘I was thinking we should give it a try.’
And that is the exact moment the bottom fell out of my world!
Rachael Johns latest book Flying the Nest follows the journey of Ashling separating from her husband and trying navigate nest parenting. It is narrated in first person by Ash, which helped me build a relationship with Ash because I was able to see events and feel emotions through her eyes. The mapquest directions location swaps between Perth when it’s Ash’s week on and Ragged Point when it’s her week off.