The Only Problem
by Muriel Spark | 
The Everlasting Story of Nory
by Nicholson Baker | 
Vacant Possession
by Hilary Mantel | 
The Game
by A. S. Byatt | 
The Bat Tattoo
by Russell Hoban | 
Great Jones Street
by Don DeLillo | 
By Love Possessed
by James Gould Cozzens | 
Final Argument
by Clifford Irving | 
Aiding and Abetting
by Muriel Spark | 
A Singular Man
by J. P. Donleavy | 
Going Native
by Stephen Wright | 
The Heart of the Family
by Elizabeth Goudge | 
Nickel Mountain
by John Gardner | 
The Finishing School
by Gail Godwin | 
Shadow Play
by Charles Baxter | 
The Choir
by Joanna Trollope | 
Marrying the Mistress
by Joanna Trollope | 
Girl from the South
by Joanna Trollope | 
Then Came You
by Jennifer Weiner | 
Fast Life
by Cassandra Carter |
Whittingbourne is one of those charming English towns where families live happily ever after. Gina and Fergus, Hillary and Laurence have grown up, married, and raised their children in the warmth of amiable friendship. But one day it all unravels as Fergus calmly leaves Gina to share his life with a young man in London, and Laurence nearly chucks it all to move to France with Gina in the heat of passion. Their children are devastated and beset with emerging passions of their own. Teenage Sophy, angry with her father, Fergus, for disrupting her life, is nonetheless drawn to him as a refuge from her mother's affair. But Fergus is not prepared for Sophy to share his new life. Sophy is also scared she might be pregnant after a furtive encounter with young George.