Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Reg Connolly is Hannah's first patient on the community round — a fiercely independent eighty-one-year-old in the last fibro house on a road the developers are circling. He is not a religious man; his wariness of having "everything in the one place" is older and harder-won than that, and it makes him one of the first to sense where things are heading. Prickly, principled, and quietly kind, he is the neighbour who answers the back door and not the front.

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…

Margaret is an elderly widow of the Henty Street congregation — small, soft-spoken, and easy to overlook…