<p><b>''I was gripped by it'' IAN McEWAN</b><br><br><b>Three lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.</b><br><br>When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is welcoming her dearest friend Lucy back from New York, her life expands dramatically. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off-grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two - but Lucy has news of her own that binds the trio unusually close.<br><br> Over the months that follow, Lucy''s boss Hunter, Olivia''s psychoanalyst parents, and a young man named Sebastian are pulled into the friends'' orbit, and not one of them will emerge unchanged.<br><br><b>''Moving and so funny'' <i>Observer</i>, Books of the Year</b><br><br><b>''Heroic and astonishing'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Clever and compassionate... A novel with heart'' <i>Spectator</i></b><br><b><br> ''Ente