Dr Anika Sorensen
family therapist
Warm; focuses on the adults’ behaviour
Two Households
Amicable lasts until school runs, money and a new partner test every promise. The series keeps the children’s experience at its centre as the family learns to live across two homes, and as the adults discover they still have things to learn from each other.
Planned · not started yet
Relationships, parenting & family Family duty Hard choices Competing advice Family home Warm Tense
The premise
Amicable lasts until school runs, money and a new partner test every promise. The series keeps the children’s experience at its centre as the family learns to live across two homes, and as the adults discover they still have things to learn from each other.
The protagonist
Carys Abernathy — Toronto mother of two separating amicably from her husband Leon
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Dr Malik Haddad-Price
child psychologist
Observant; watches the children, not their words
Penelope Strand
family mediator
Structured; writes everything down
How the story moves
Books alternate the children’s and parents’ viewpoints across three years; each schedule decision has consequences the next narrator lives with.
What readers take away
- How separation affects children at different ages
- Parenting plans and schedules
- Decision-making responsibility under Ontario law
- Child-support guideline basics
- Communication tools between separated parents
- Introducing new partners
- Mediation and when court is needed
- Supporting children through moves and school changes
- Use parenting apps and shared calendars to reduce conflict
- Recognise when a child needs counselling
- Handle holidays and travel consent
- Revise a parenting plan as children grow
The books
- 1The announcement Planned
- 2Two homes Planned
- 3The schedule Planned
- 4The new partner Planned
- 5High school Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.