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Description
Jeremy and Angel, Paul and Marsha have been friends for years, but a moment of madness during a long weekend together changes everything. Marsha, a much loved television cook, never thought she would be a mother, but keeping the baby will test friendship to the limit and threaten to wreck her marriage. For Paul, it’s history repeating itself. For Angel it seems like the end of a perfect marriage; and for Jeremy, it’s the beginning of emotions he just can’t come to terms with. They all seem so successful and sophisticated, these four, yet they are hopelessly lost when it comes to something as commonplace as having a baby.
This is Jennifer Chapman's first novel for ten years. Her writing has been likened to Deborah Moggach, Rachel Billington and Penelope Lively, and has been widely praised.
“Past form indicates that anything Jennifer Chapman writes must be taken seriously.” The Times
"Set against the backdrop of Aga cookery, weekend lunches in the country, arts review programmes on television, it's also a novel about birth and death, love and jealousy, friendship and betrayal . . . But it's the development of the characters, and in the author's near-scientific fascination with the working of their minds, that the books' strength lies. The Sunday Tribune |
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Author
Jennifer Chapman is the author of an acclaimed sequence of contemporary novels published by Century: The Long Weekend, Mysterious Ways, Not Playing the Game and Regretting It.
She has also written a number of non-fiction titles, including The Last Bastion — the Case for and against Women Priests.
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