
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013. What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam & Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives & families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful reckless & troubled Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid
- & everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches Adam is torn between duty & temptation security & freedom & must make a choice that will break either one heart or many. ' Wonderful...witty...an astonishingly accomplished debut which will draw comparisons between Segal & Zadie Smith & Monica Ali' Stylist.