471pp, 250g. Spine and cover creases, remainder mark, letter "T" in ballpoint on blurb page, covers lightly soiled. Molly Bell Redwine was taught that "The Family" was the world's most vital entity. But when her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, her domineering mosther dies, her children scatter, Molly's family cuts her adrift. Taking refuge on Martha's Vineyad, she rents a small cottage by an up-island pond an becomes part of a very different community.