When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of sixty-two years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, with their new life - new house, new city, new baby. Lucy and her husband Ben are struggling to transform from adventurous lovers to new parents and seek to smooth the rough edges of their present with memories of their past as they try to discover their future selves.
In her nearby nursing home, Elsie revisits the span of her life - the moments she can't bear to let go; the haunts to which she might yet return. Her memories of marriage, motherhood, love and death are intertwined with her old house, whose rooms seem to breathe Elsie's secrets into Lucy.
This is a story of mothers and daughters, of expectations and the misunderstandings that drive them apart. And of fathers who suddenly realize everything has changed and that a child can turn their life upside down with love.
It is a quiet, touching story.
I loved the cover on this book. It would be one of the prettiest I have seen. and it felt nice to hold.
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