Over three decades ago, Abigail embarked on an intense affair with Mads, the father of the family she lived with in Denmark during her gap year in 1987.
What will happen when she attends his funeral now? Abigail has grown angry and bitter that this forty-one-year-old man started and ended their affair, especially now when she thinks about her teenage daughter.
But did he start it? The more she considers their relationship - whatever it was - the more she questions her reasons for getting so close to Mads.
Return to Silkeborg weaves back and forth between the present day and the events that occurred during this gap year. Abigail must revisit her past and make peace with the twenty-three-year age difference and the clandestine nature of their relationship. She no longer views it with rose-coloured glasses.
What unfolds is a journey of self-discovery and reflection as Abigail confronts the truth of their connection.
Contemporary, Literary, Travel, Coming of Age, Love
About The Author
Vanessa Benford has spent the last thirty years establishing a career in finance. She has been fortunate to have lived and worked in three countries.
Originally from the US, she completed university studies in California with a degree in economics and commenced work in Los Angeles. In the late nineties, she transferred to work in London, where she met and married an Australian.
She immigrated to Melbourne eighteen years ago, where she currently lives with her husband and three children. In addition to travel, she has a passion for all music, in particular from the 1980s.
