The appeal of this touching novel is obvious for fans of epistolary favorites like 84, Charing Cross Road and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but you don't have to love novels-in-letters to thoroughly enjoy the correspondence between this Danish museum curator and British farm wife, as they discuss life's unexpected twists and turns, and find their lives unexpectedly entwined.

From the publisher: "Eve expected Sally to come festooned with suitcases and overnight bags packed with everything she owned, but she was wrong. She arrived on foot, with a rucksack and a carrier bag. 'I just walked away,' she said, climbing on to the boat. Eve knew what she meant. Meet Eve, who has left her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up children; and Anastasia, a defiantly independent narrowboat-dweller, who is suddenly landlocked and vulnerable. Before they quite know what they’ve done, Sally and Eve agree to drive Anastasia’s narrowboat on a journey through the canals of England, as she awaits a life-saving operation. As they glide gently – and not so gently – through the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of narrowboat life draw them inexorably together, and a tender and unforgettable story unfolds. At summer’s end, all three women must decide whether to return to the lives they left behind, or forge a new path forward."