Finalist: Whistler Independent Book Award for 2016

Claire has always been a woman of action, a woman surging through life's challenges, blind to the tragedies left in her wake. Claire's younger sister Heather and Claire's daughter Nora follow behind, picking up the pieces, making things right. Or so it has always seemed to Heather and Nora.

"When I was young Claire was my big sister," says Heather. "When I had my own family she was my older sister who enjoyed life and maybe drank a bit too much; then she was my sister who fell down the stairs and had a brain...