A dazzling novel about modern love up against the confusing, sad aches of mental illness - with all its highs, lows, humour and misery.
Meg Mason Boeken
Meg Masons werk duikt in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en de emotionele landschappen van haar personages. Haar proza staat bekend om zijn scherpe humor en inzichtelijke verkenningen van de menselijke psyche. Ze creëert haar personages met precisie, onthult hun innerlijke worstelingen en trekt lezers mee in diepe reflecties over het leven en verbinding. Haar stijl is zowel elegant als direct, waardoor ze een breed publiek aanspreekt.
EVENING STANDARD'S 'BEST FICTION BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2022' What do you do, when you find the perfect family... ...and it's not yours? 'Rare and delightful . . . A beautifully crafted novel about female relationships. I couldn't put this book down' Marie Claire The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought. That is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour, and they become almost like mother and daughter. If only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met...
