They were 'the five families' - the pleasant hospitable Frosts, the brash and sexy Cleggs, flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star, maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome, Michael Wickham and his perfect wife Marcelle. Old friends, their lives are interwoven in a comfortable pattern of school runs and Sunday golf, barbecues and shared holidays.
Until Nina Cort returns to the cathedral city of her childhood. Rich sophisticated and newly widowed, Nina is an exotic thread in the pattern, whose intrusion reveals a web of hidden flaws.
In the course of a year from which none will emerge unscathed, the five families and Nina discover that you can never truly know the fabric of other people's marriages. Perhaps not even of your own...
| ISBN: | 9780099462477 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 2003 |
| Author: | Rosie Thomas |
| Publisher: | Arrow Books an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 458 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |