This graceful novel interweaves the narratives of three characters in small-town Ontario. Six-year-old Clare, whose older sister has gone missing, finds comfort tending to the cat of her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Orchard. Mrs. Orchard, meanwhile, spends her bedridden days recalling a crime committed decades ago, desperate to make amends. And then there's Liam, newly divorced and unmoored, who turns up unexpectedly. Lawson skillfully reveals the connections between them all with wisdom and big-hearted compassion.