Mary Wollaston

March 1919. The war is over, but peace has not arrived at the Wollaston breakfast table. Doctor John Wollaston stumbles in after a night of surgery, jovial and distracted, while his sister Lucile battles to hold the family together. Then a letter arrives from John's daughter Mary, and it cracks open years of silence. Mary chose love over her father's approval. She left, took war work in New York, built a life on her own terms. Now Lucile carries the weight of that rupture, watching her brother drift into a new marriage with Paula while the wound with Mary remains untended. This is a family in transition, caught between the old world's expectations and the new one's uncertain freedoms. Webster writes with sharp precision about what happens when the people we love most become strangers, and whether forgiveness is possible when pride has calcified into years of silence.