Selected for the Woman-s Own Book ClubMay 2023
One of Prima Magazine-s Best New BooksMay 2023
''Warm, wry, sad and brilliantly sharp''Daily Mail
''Clever, fresh and original'' Nina Pottell, Books Editor at Prima Magazine
Dan and Anya Moorcroft have decided to get a divorce. Together, they-ve done it all. Two kids, three owned houses, four rented flats, fifty-something holidays, and one affair apiece. Now, after fifteen years together (nine of them married) they-re on the brink.
But as they go through couples- mediation, revisiting and rediscovering their shared history in sessions surrounded by lawyers and paperwork, are they about to find something that-s worth saving? Or are they going to reaffirm their decision to end things for good?
Each section of the book is a focus area for the divorce mediation process: sex, home, money, family, us. Through this, the novel explores how marriage is