Mid-life follies

“Laugh out loud funny and completely moving at the same time.” When Liz flees the comfortable family home in Cambridge after twenty-three years of contented marriage, a baffled Hugh is left to figure out why his wife has abandoned him. Is she having a midlife crisis? Should he be having one too? A succession of twists and turns are preventing a restoration to the normality that the couple increasingly crave as their children, parents and friends discover that immaturity is not solely the preserve of the young. A humorous novel about the fragility of even the most robust relationships. “Warm, witty, poignant…characters that stay with you.”