Welcome to Juliet, Saskatchewan. A blink and you'll miss it kind of town where nothing much happens, until one day ... secrets are revealed, marriages tested and a life ended.

From the Governor General's Award winner, a big-hearted new novel about three women in a family and their struggle with the expectations that form themNinety-year-old Estella Buckman is the last descendant of a successful manufacturer of clay bricks, sewage pipes and toilets. Attended to by a housekeeper named Emyflor, Estella lives alone in the family home in an upscale old neighbourhood in Regina, lamenting that the once-significant Buckmans have dispersed in a kind of family diaspora, lured by the oil and the lifestyle of Alberta. Estella's solitary life is in part of her own making. As independent-minded as they come, she has fought for everything she has achieved, often struggling against the people she loved best. For much of her youth, she held on to the secret of her father's first marriage, which she discovered along with a bundle of letters when she was a child. The rest of the Buckman family learned of this secret only...

From the Governor General's Award–winning author of Cool Water comes a poignant, often witty new novel about being a square peg in a round holeTwenty years into her relationship, sharp-edged Frances Moon surprises her partner, Ian, by blurting out long-held secrets she never intended to share. The reverberations are enough to drive them apart, forcing Frances back to her mother's old rental property on Liberty Street in her hometown of Elliot. Frances finds that coming home again is not helping her face up to a string of bad decisions, but just reminding her why she made them in the first place.From childhood, Frances has always been at odds with the world—being on her own at school, continually disappointing the mother she once revered, rushing headlong into an ill-suited marriage. But there are good memories, too—of closeness to a father determined to run his farm despite his failing eyesight; of a glimpse of kindness from the...