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A gripping novel that follows a year in the lives of four families in the elite Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill. Here, inevitable storms are brewing between the four married couples and their children.
Former singer Mandy is so unhappy with motherhood and her physical condition that she fakes a debilitating illness just to attract the attention of her husband, Stuart, a former boy band member. Stuart is unrequitedly in love with Peaches, a school nurse, who has a lousy husband named Greg - he wears noise-canceling headphones everywhere. A few blocks away lives Roy - a famous British novelist who can't write his next book and is losing his marriage to the tireless Wendy. Around the corner - Tupper - a nervous introverted industrial designer with a warehouse full of prosthetic limbs. He tries to calm his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. And in the book you will meet a couple of teenagers...