
Synopsis
‘A truthful, exciting, agonising adult love triangle’ - Laline Paull, author of The Bees
‘I absolutely loved it!’ - Marian Keyes
‘#NormalPeople for grown-ups’ @veronica_henry
For Lucy, marriage to Mark provided an anchor after several years of drifting casually across countries, into jobs and out of relationships.
Now forty-two, her anchor is working loose. Bewildered by the demands of motherhood and dissatisfied by...
Details
272 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Honest, grown-up, moving, sometimes shocking. Also, beautifully written. I absolutely loved it!Marian Keyes (on Twitter)
A truthful, exciting, agonising adult love triangle. An emotional labyrinth, with monsters, great risks – and survival.Laline Paull, author of The Bees.
A novel of great tenderness and intelligence . . . A grown up love tangle with interesting, grown up men and women.Andrew Miller, author of Pure
What a lucid, subtle and beautiful writer she is, with a gift for slicing through to the complexities of a relationship or a situation. Reading anything by Mary Loudon is to peer through the bell jar to the truths captured inside it.Elizabeth Buchan, author of The Good Wife and The New Mrs Clifton