Synopsis
A heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal Emily should be happy. She has a nice enough husband, Steven (even if they never actually speak to each other any more, let alone sleep in the same bed); two little boys she loves deeply (even if a full night's sleep is a distant memory) - and now, a brand-new house in which they can throw up shelves and pictures and live out all of the bourgeois fantasies she knows she should be ashamed of but cannot resist. But still she aches for something more. Enter Alathea and Elliott, their new neighbours, who have sons of almost exactly the same age. Alathea is all the popular, confident girls of Emily's youth who would never talk to her back then, except that she's disarmingly open and wants to be friends. And Elliott ... Elliott is intriguing. Dishevelled, talented, charming and a little lost, he seems as fascinated by Emily as she is by him, and soon their friendship has reached an intensity neither of them seem able to control. Rich in layers and surprising revelations, and as riotously funny as it is achingly moving, this is a novel about disappointment and yearning, about parenting and growing up, and, above all, about the search for love and meaning.
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À propos de l'auteur
Luke Kennard is the author of six collections of poetry and one other novel, The Transition. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2007. In 2014 he was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets. He lectures at the University of Birmingham.
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