Nice People on Planes

In the skies above America, strangers talk to Cora. Their stories at first seem harmless - until she notices unsettling echoes of her own life in their words. Again and again, chance encounters leave her with the same lingering question: are these friendly strangers trying to tell her something?

Already stretched thin by the demands of work, a troubled daughter and family crises she can't afford to fix, Cora retreats to her family's weathered beach house on a remote New Zealand beach. Amid shifting clouds and memories buried in the sand, relationships old and new challenge her beliefs about the family's link to the beach. As she begins to make peace with her past, the mystery of the friendly strangers follows her home.

Nice People on Planes is an emotionally rich novel about family, belonging and the invisible forces that shape our choices and connections … including the real reason beneath Cora's conversations with all those nice people on planes.