Constance Beresford-Howe wrote a delightful little book in 1973 called "The Book of Eve". Eve had a comfortable life in the well-to-do English neighborhood in Montreal, as a wife, and a mother of one grown son. On the day she received her first pension check, she walked out of that life to start a journey of personal growth and exploration. She made discoveries about herself, her husband, and her son along the way that shocked her, but she became self-sufficient and a stronger person.

This is the kind of story that pulls you back into it again and again, so that, with each rereading, you see new aspects of Eve, her past life, and the life ahead of her.