Description
Neville Bendish is left aimless after fulfilling her role as a loving wife and mother of two children. After celebrating her forty-third birthday, she decides to enroll at a university to realize her dream of earning a medical degree, both as a way to leave behind the confines of her home and to use her knowledge and talents before they start to deteriorate with each passing year.
Neville’s story also allows the reader to take a glimpse into the lives of Mrs. Hilary, Neville’s widowed mother who is coasting through life doing housework and helping the local parish; Neville’s sister Nan, a writer who thinks of settling down with her friend Barry Briscoe, but hasn’t found the courage to accept his offer; and Neville’s daughter Gerda,...