"Highly recommended" Sunday Times
"Utterly captivating" Woman and Home
"Sympathetic and clear-eyed" Financial Times Summer Reads of 2021
"Unfailingly impressive" Irish Times
"Sparse and precise" Telegraph
"A beautiful novel of what it is to be a women in modern Europe" New European
"An intelligent study of female desire, ambition and frailty" Observer
Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn''t stop her looking for love online. Brida is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the "perfect" man, Malika struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister Jorinde, an actor, is pregnant for
