Six Weeks in Summer

When Meg Cornwall’s husband Paul dies, she finds herself at 50 in sole possession of a large house still resonating with the echoes of her impossible mother-in-law, and no clear plan for the future.

Joey McBride’s plans for the future are quite clear – a good HSC mark and place at university – until her unpredictable mother leaves Joey with total responsibility for her ten-year-old brother Rupert.

Caitlin Fleming sees her future as marriage to Paul Cornwall’s nephew Adam, but Adam’s determination to inherit his uncle’s house before Meg dies rather than after, has consequences he didn’t anticipate.

Angelique Leclair is rebelling against the future laid out for her by her adoptive parents, but having a secret life is bound to backfire, and when things go terribly wrong, home is the last place she can go.

The lives of these four women intersect at the Coffeehouse at a time when each of them is searching for a way forward.

Mutual support offers breathing space rather than miracle solutions, and it isn’t until Christmas Day that each of them finds a clear path ahead.