title: Going All The Way Round: The Diary of A Reluctant Caregiver
author: Elinor MacDonald
description: Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Elinor J. Mac Donald graduated from Smithe College with a Bachelor's degree in psychology. After two graduate degrees, in 1985 she became a Professor of Psychology at a community college in Danielson, Connecticut. She now lives in Brooklyn, Connecticut where both she and her husband are retired from college teaching. She spends every summer in rural Prince Edward Island, Canada, comtemplating nature. At present, she is working on a romance novel set in Regency England involving spies, secret lists and a debonair, dashing hero.
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  **Praise for Fiona McArthur and her fabulous _Lyrebird Lake Maternity_ mini-
  series:**
  
  
  ‘Ms McArthur has created a series that is powerfully  
  moving and yet filled with characters that could be  
  any other member of your family because they’re  
  down-to-earth people who are just human like everyone  
  else. Thank you, Ms McArthur, for a thoroughly  
  enjoyable time spent in your world of Lyrebird Lake.’
  
  
  _—Cataromance.com_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **He’d done okay today, thanks mostly to Bonnie, but how to live with the
  crushing guilt of his delay in response?**
  
  
  It had happened in his first emergency after Clara died. His colleagues had
  told him it was only natural, to give himself time, but he’d backed away in
  horror. A man not to be trusted. A doctor unable to deal with emergencies. A
  man ashamed of a vocation that had been his life.
  
  
  So he had run to Bali.
  
  
  Avoided any contact with medicine. And drifted. Drifted until a determined
  little midwife had dragged him into the ver