About the book

Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six and they were married two months later. Now they are exchanging their bohemian lifestyle for a house of their own in a college town: a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. Nathan is boyishly excited by the fact that their next-door neighbour is the distinguished Senator Tom Naughton. Meri is unimpressed, yet strikes up an unexpected friendship with Naughton¡s wife, the elegant, patrician Delia. She becomes increasingly drawn to this private, poised older woman, sensing that she has much to learn from her about marriage, love and motherhood. But she comes closer, too, to a final, terrible breach of trust that could ruin everything.