This new collection of stories from acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jane Gardam is full of perceptive and original insights. Sister Luke and Sister Reparatrice, out in the convent's Morris Traveller, have a bizarre adventure; Kalus, who is a stranger to passion, becomes emotional over a huge and delicious lunch; and, in the title story, the history of three generations is told in a way which turns all our preconceptions on their heads.