The Woman in the MiddleBy: Milly Johnson Shay Bastable is the woman in the middle. She is part of the sandwich generation caring for her parents and her children, supporting her husband Bruce, holding them all together and caring for them as best she can. Then the arrival of a large orange skip on her mothers estate sets in motion a cataclysmic series of events which leads to the collapse of Shays world. She is forced to put herself first for a change. But in order to move