<p><b><font>"Highly recommended" <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>"Utterly captivating" <i>Woman and Home</i></b><br><br><b>"Sympathetic and clear-eyed"<i> Financial Times </i>Summer Reads of 2021<br><br></b><b>"Unfailingly impressive" <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>"Sparse and precise"<i> Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>"A beautiful novel of what it is to be a women in modern Europe" <i>New European</i></b><br><b><i><br>"</i>An intelligent study of female desire, ambition and frailty" <i>Observer</i></b><b></font></b><br><br>Bookseller <b>Paula</b> has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent <b>Judith</b> thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn''t stop her looking for love online. <b>Brida</b> is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the "perfect" man, <b>Malika</b> struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister <b>Jorinde</b>, an actor, is pregnant for