The Past We Carry

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Genres

Psychological Fiction, Women's Fiction, Time Travel, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Death

Type of Ending

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Publication Date

Mar 1, 2026

Page Length

248 pages

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The Past We Carry

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Blurb

One accident. Two lives lost. Rewind.

What if you had the power to rewrite your family’s history, but in doing so would change everything you’ve ever known? This is what Bianca must answer as she finds herself sent back in time to confront the tragedy that forever altered her lineage.

Bianca is in the middle of her second breakdown. She blames her mother, Frances, for the last one, sending her to stay at Northern Mental Hospital. Although this time it’s a little different, she’s in 1979. And now she has a chance to break the chain of events that started it all.

Walking the Heysen Trail, in South Australia, Bianca finds herself making the journey with her grandparents and her grandmother’s sister. She knows how their trip ends; two of them perish falling from a cliff. The effects of this tragic event rippled through her grandmother and then onto Frances and Bianca. It’s up to Bianca to delve further into her mind to try and remember enough to stop it.

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Genres

Psychological Fiction, Women's Fiction, Time Travel, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Death

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

100

Number of days to read

Publication Date

Mar 1, 2026

Page Length

248 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

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.