Feeling unfulfilled in her career and personal life, architect and single mom Jane Larsen calls upon an old boyfriend, the love of her life, and finds her interest in the outside world rekindled.

When the mother who abandoned her at age four suddenly reappears in her life and then just as promptly passes away, Alice, a grown woman with a daughter of her own, searches for answers and learns important truths about the desperation and courage that marked her mother’s life.

Suffragists raise Ellen, who travels to Austria to transform a boarding school and meets Marek, a school handyman and composer, but the war separates them.

From her Dublin hospital bed, an ailing elderly woman recalls the important events and people of her life, from her emigration to America in the 1920s, to her Irish marriage, to motherhood, as she awaits a visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora.

Winter solstice—the shortest day of the year—represents darkness and also hope, renewal, and rebirth. Five very different people come together in this setting, ranging in age from teenagers to mid-sixties, each of whom must confront very different challenges or losses.

Two couples living in the Irish countryside are friends, but changes occur in their relationship because of doubts, infidelity, and the desire of one woman to have a child.

Rebuilding her life on a plantation after the disappearance of her mother and the death of a sibling, Emily Parmenter forges a near-mystical relationship with her beloved spaniel and finds her world changing after the arrival of a rebellious debutante.

Distraught when her youngest son, twenty-two-year-old Ben, plans to leave home, Edie, an actress, and her theatrical agent husband, Russell, are faced with an empty nest for the first time, until their two older children plan to move back in.

Traces the journey of memory and psychological growth experienced by a young woman who inherits a cache of letters, photographs, memorabilia, and family mementos from Julia, a long-lost childhood friend.