All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

He had never even glimpsed her.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.