The author is a Methodist minister, so her story of Rev. Esme Browne settling into her new appointment, meeting the people of her three chapels, and working her way through the Methodist year, ring true at every stage. Lonely, divorced and newly assigned to a rural parish full of quirky characters, Esme Browne rediscovers the beauty of friendship in a most unlikely place. Recently ordained and more recently divorced, Reverend Esme Browne finds herself at an uncomfortable crossroads when stationed at the Portland Road Chapel. In addition to the church in the seaside town, she also now bears the spiritual responsibility for two country chapels which, for the efficient, well-versed, forty-something lifelong student should be exciting, invigorating and even hopeful. However, Esme has forgotten how to pray...and how to feel. A chance encounter with an eccentric pair of country gnostics may change all that, but sheĺl have to be willing to juggle the demands of the Church, her parishes and a bevy of well-intended but nibby neighbors before sheĺl know for sure.