Description: Pinpointing the battleground of the modern marriage, Buchan offers a blisteringly truthful, yet tenderly observed account of the extraordinary compromises that are struck between people who love each other. After 20 years of marriage to the older widower Max, Prue has experienced the stresses not only of motherhood but of a resentful and unforgiving stepdaughter. When the stepdaughter returns with her new husband from New York, Prue is suddenly thrown into a new and secret life. She traces the boundaries between innocence and difficult knowledge, between the gluttony and surrender of desire and the stark realities that result.

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