A late, unfinished novel published after Lowry's death. Ethan Llewelyn and his wife Jacqueline have left a life of upheaval and are searching for a home in the Pacific Northwest of Canada. As they travel by ferry and wait through a stormy autumn, memories of past troubles, loss and old fears surface. The book is gentler and more tied to ordinary life than Under the Volcano, and shows Lowry's love of the coastal wilderness where he lived for years. It is a thoughtful, lyrical study of a marriage and of the hope for a place to belong.