Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Margaret is an elderly widow of the Henty Street congregation — small, soft-spoken, and easy to overlook, with a quiet, settled steel beneath. She has buried more than most and kept her faith without fuss. She is exactly the kind of unremarkable, faithful presence a busy younger person walks past, and the story asks what we miss when we underestimate the quiet ones.
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…
Jess is Hannah's closest friend and fellow community nurse — twelve years on the rounds together, fast…
Josh Calder is Hannah's fiancé — a tall, warm, easy-to-like New Zealander who works on the national…
Mel is the warm centre of Hannah's church family — about thirty-five, married to Cam, mother of two small…