Alice Lightfoot is far too young to be a widow and a grandmother. Perhaps she'd been too young to be a wife, although she was happy enough at the time. Now, nearly three years after her husband's death, the world suddenly begins turning at a disconcertingly faster pace. Her daughter expects Alice's life to revolve around her grandchild, Lily, and everyone else seems to think that she must be looking for a new husband. There doesn't seem to be space to decide what she wants for herself. Alice is a woman at a turning point. She has far-reaching choices to make and the seriously unexpected to face.