02426cam a2200397 i 4500 383935752 TxAuBib 20190101120000.0 131119s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013041936 9780345532831 034553283X (OCoLC)863854481 TxAuBib rda Corrigan, Kelly, 1967- Glitter and glue : a memoir / Kelly Corrigan. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2014] ©2014. 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as 'your father's the glitter but I'm the glue.' This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom, with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism, would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly's life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler's checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. But it didn't turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That's how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother's voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. 20190101. Corrigan, Kelly 1967- Corrigan, Kelly 1967- Family. Corrigan, Kelly 1967- Travel Australia Sydney (N.S.W.) Mothers and daughters. Motherhood. Young women United States Biography. Young women Australia Sydney (N.S.W) Biography. Americans Australia Sydney (N.S.W) Biography. Nannies Australia Sydney (N.S.W) Biography. Sydney (N.S.W) Biography.