Sue Miller's stunning novel captures a world of lost possibilities, exploring the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women.
Catherine Hubbard is at a crossroads in her San Francisco life. Twice divorced, her three children are now grown and scattered. Then news comes that she has inherited her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont. Catherine finds in Vermont not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia's as well.
Georgia's diaries, discovered in the attic, reveal her grandmother's deepest secrets too - a first encounter with the young doctor she will later marry, the tragic misunderstanding at the heart of their relationship, and the lie that seals their fate . . .
