About the Book: Adults: From the million-copy bestselling author of The Wedding
People
On a bright summer evening in 1990s Connecticut, fourteen-year-old Emily Vidal
stands on her parents lawn, watching the adults arrive. Her mother is hosting a
lavish birthday party for her father, even though he is about to leave her for
another woman.
Adrift between her feuding parents and eccentric neighbours, Emily is closer
than she knows to the choices and heartbreaks that will define her in the years
ahead.
From the author of the million-copy international bestseller The Wedding
People, this ruefully funny debut novel explores love, grief, consequences and
the messy business