Time and time again, ninety-two-year-old Ivadoile Spears, the former keeper of the Tides Inn, returns to a cedar box containing photographs of everyone she's lost. As she edges towards dementia, she struggles to preserve these fading memories. And through her recollections, we're introduced to the idiosyncratic, dangerous, and inspiring cast of characters who peopled her inn, including the man who brought untamed passion into Iva's life-the man she sent away. In her highly anticipated follow-up to Where White Horses Gallop, a Globe and Mail Best Book, Beatrice MacNeil offers a stunningly...