<p><b>Sophie Green, Top Ten bestselling author of <i>The Bellbird River Country Choir </i>and <i>Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society</i>, returns with a warm-hearted new novel about friendships, fresh starts and finding yourself.</b><br><br><b>Mornington Peninsula, 1999. </b>Wife and now grandmother <b>Joan</b> has checked into the grand old Duchess Hotel to find herself again after thirty-five years of being who her husband and family have wanted her to be. Peninsula local and soon-to-be octogenarian <b>Frances</b> is distracting herself from getting old, and avoiding her self-interested son by escaping to the warmth of the Duchess where the hotel staff treat her like the person she still is. Meanwhile Frances''s daughter, <b>Alison</b>, is trying to manage significant disruptions at home while hoping to finally prove to her mother that she''s just as worthy of love as her brother. New to the Duchess, hotel maid <b>Kirrily</b> is feeling the weight of a lifetime of responsibi