The bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman returns with a delightfully wise and witty novel of two women constrained by choice. One has too little, the other too much.

In the summer of 1959, 40-year-old Barbara Beeching, the married mother of two grown-up children, embarks on an unexpected, tender, and surprisingly passionate affiar with a much younger man. Forty years later, 35-year-old Siena Grant, a successful television fashion consultant, faces a difficult question: Should she agree to have the baby her husband yearns for?

Decades separate Barbara and Siena, yet each is at a crossroads, and each is wondering, "Where does happiness lie?" They are destined never to meet, yet their stories are woven together and their intimate, inner lives are linked.

Fans of Elizabeth Buchan know that no one is better at capturing the complexities of marriage at middle age. Each of her novels is eagerly awaited by women who revere her as a literary goddess. Her latest—savvy, sophisticated, irresistibly entertaining—does not disappoint.

For well-done domestic drama, there's only one writer for this reader: Elizabeth Buchan."

"Both Kellgren and Moore successfully project each woman’s anguish as events unfold in their lives.. . . [They] put human and lovable faces on the women."

ELIZABETH BUCHAN is the author of nine books including the New York Times best-seller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Her third novel, Consider the Lily, won the 1994 Romantic Novel of the Year award. At home in London, where she lives with her husband and two children, she is a frequent reviewer for national newspapers in the U.K. and the U.S.