On Tiney Flynn's seventeenth birthday, in a single moment in the garden of Larksrest, the world changed. In the warm evening air, with the flutter of almond blossom falling around her, she heard the tumbling waterfall of sound that was every church bell in the city of Adelaide tolling, as if tolling in a new year, a new era.
Tiney and her family find that building peace and rebuilding lives after war is far more complicated than they could ever have imagined.