The listing, Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin has ended.
From the inside flap "Sophie Walker has no choice but to leave Zimbabwe and return home to southern Ontario when she learns that her mother is dying. While her mother, an ardent wildlife painter, strives bravely against cancer's odds to retain a creative hold on her diminishing vitality, Sophie herself contemplates with incertitude the apparent aimlessness of her nomadic existence at the same time that she faces the desolate prospect of a long gray Canadian winter on the family farm." Hardcover book with jacket, in excellent condition, only read once and from my smoke free home. :-)