It’s hard under the best of circumstances. For those with difficult family relationships or estrangement, it’s even more complicated Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The phone call came in mid-2016. “I’ve got cancer,” the old woman announced. Kathy*, a small business consultant, lived in Sydney. Her widowed mother, then in her 80s, lived in a large regional town four hours’ drive away. For the next five years, Kathy became her mother’s drive-in, drive-out carer, clocking up thousands of kilometres on her odometer. Continue reading...