It is Perth, Western Australia, 2015, and:
BELINDA cannot believe how tough her life has suddenly become. Not only has her husband, David, died, he has also left her in financial straits. Other people have always looked after her needs but when she calls on her two closest friends to come to her rescue they suggest a return to the workforce she left forty years ago. It is all too hard. There must be an easier way. She is still a good-looking woman, after all.
LEITH is preparing for her morning run. A highly competent businesswoman and proud of her self-made success she has no time for her self-absorbed former husband, Tony, or for any other man for that matter. Blessed with two very dear friends, she is also the mother of two perfect children. Which makes her the perfect mother, doesn’t it? Surely nothing could happen to shatter this secure world of hers. Then the phone rings.
MAVIS is puzzled. Of course, she is past retirement age, but what does that signify? Her value lies in the quality of her work as a highly competent teacher and surely her long history with her school guarantees her security of tenure. Why, then, is she suddenly being challenged about her technological proficiency and, more importantly, her ability to handle difficult students? She decides not to worry her friends with her problems; however, as her anxiety level rises, the past life she has fought so hard to bury returns to haunt her dreams.

Can identity ever be said to be fixed? Should we resist change or welcome it as full of possibilities? These are the questions that must be answered in this contemporary novel that speaks loudly to all of us.