Before her marriage Catherine Fox had been not only a successful features writer but had been within an ace of taking over the editorship of Australia's most glossy magazine. Then she met Paul Grant. She was twenty-eight and Paul thirty-two. Attraction had been instant and mutual and the time was right.
Four years later, with three children in three years, Catherine feels an unequal partner in their life. Paul's body seems untouched by fatherhood, yet her own is like a stranger's with lines and marks and bulk where none had been before. Resentments hidden under careful politeness do more to poison their relationship than outright anger. Into this domestic drama enters Andromeda, the spiky-haired nanny; Janie, the glamorous and successful former girlfriend; and Henry . . . dear Henry.
For anyone else a story about two beautiful people who marry because it is the right time in their life to settle and have children would follow a predictable path. But this is a Brenda Little novel and nothing is predictable. Her insights capture the quirky and sometimes unlikeable habits common to all humanity and this is what makes the characters so true to life.
