Three strong women make their way in 1950s Canada

English hairdresser, Ethel, is alone after the deaths of her family and her wartime fiancé.

Widow and single mother, Alice, bringing up two daughters, receives an unexpected inheritance that will transform her life.

War bride, Joan, is now mother to four small children.

The women are brought together in a rural Canadian town where they each try to build a future – often in spite of the men in their lives. Each woman has a different idea of happiness. Will any or all of them achieve it?

The final novel in The Canadians series after The Chalky Sea and The Alien Corn.