A compelling tale of modern family life - Watching her beloved sister Diana die, Maggie Day ponders the complex ties that bind the five Barton girls, now middle-aged women. A deathbed slip-of-the-tongue raises unanswered questions, and Maggie determines to uncover the truth about her family, at the same time as confronting the shock of being a newly-abandoned wife and the everyday needs of her son, a father at just nineteen . . .