Vintage, Toronto, 2006, 1^st paperback pr.  ISBN 0-676-97701-4.  Trade soft cover, 307 pages.  Good plus; wraps show some edge and cover wear, some creases and impressions.  Binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘Nora wakes one morning ... Her husband, Philip, lying beside her in bed, has died in the night.  He leaves behind ... Nora, an artist whose recent works have caused a fundamentalist furor in the town where they live; Beth, Nora’s artist’s model, who now faces losing a haven from her shocking past; and Sophie, the housekeeper, who has her own secret griefs to contend with.  In the days immediately following Philip’s death, the women careen through circumstances none of them could have expected, and begin to reshape their lives as they consider the big hovering question:  Now what?’ (from rear wrap)