Four friends. A lifetime of choices. What comes next? Kate had been so busy making a place in the world for her daughters, she had somehow forgotten to take care of herself. The life she'd ended up with was not the life she'd planned. Everything was.a compromise. When Kate's younger daughter Ella goes off to university, she realises her life has become consumed by the minutiae of family life. In her 'empty nest', Kate starts to wonder: what now? Decades after abandoning her university hobby of rowing, Kate gingerly joins a local ladies rowing team and rediscovers her passion for the pleasing rhythmic sensation of paddle slicing through water.

More than anything, though, Kate finds that the team of strong women bring new adventures and unlikely friendships she hadn't even realised she missed having. A life-affirming, uplifting story about eight fifty-something women who are all asking the same question about what is next in life for them - and starting to discover the answer together.