Novelist Dorothy Gilman, author of the bestselling Mrs. Pollifax
series, had reached a point of no return in her life. With her sons in
college, Ms. Gilman was searching for something unknowable, unnameable .
. . until she bought a small house in a little lobstering village in
Nova Scotia, Canada. And so she began her life again, discovering
talents and interests she never realized were hers, accepting the inner
peace she had always fought, and most of all, understanding the untapped
part of herself, almost as if it were a new kind of country, to
challenge, explore, and love.