Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Jess is Hannah's closest friend and fellow community nurse — twelve years on the rounds together, fast, funny, sharp, and cheerfully unreligious. She is the story's honest outside eye, the one who says what everyone's thinking and calls out anything that rings false. As the world tilts, her front-row view of Hannah becomes one of the book's quiet engines.
Cam is Mel's husband — an electrician in his late thirties, big, steady, and gentle, the practical backbone…
Eleni Reid is Hannah's mother — a warm, formidable Greek-Australian matriarch and the engine of the Oakleigh…
Hannah Reid is the heart of The Endurance — a thirty-one-year-old community nurse working the growth corridor…
Josh Calder is Hannah's fiancé — a tall, warm, easy-to-like New Zealander who works on the national…
Margaret is an elderly widow of the Henty Street congregation — small, soft-spoken, and easy to overlook…
Mel is the warm centre of Hannah's church family — about thirty-five, married to Cam, mother of two small…