Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order—college, law school, career, marriage—but now everything's going wrong. After two painful 'years of trying, Elinor has learned that she can't have children. All the doctors can tell her is that it's probably because of her age. As she turns forty, she withdraws into an interior world of heartbreak.
Elinor's loving husband, Ted, a successful podiatrist, has always done the right thing, too.

 

Then he meets the wrong woman at the wrong time, and does the wrong thing. Ted's lover, Gina—a beautiful and kindhearted nutritionist—always eats the right thing, but is unlucky in love and always falls for the wrong men. Soon Ted has to fight to make everything right again.

Can Elinor and Ted's marriage be saved? The answer is alarmingly fresh and unexpected as New York Times bestselling author Lolly Winston introduces us to characters as memorable as those of Anne Tyler and Nick Hornby, but who are indelibly all her own.

Lolly Winston is the New York Times bestselling author of Good Grief . Her work has appeared in Redbook, Glamour, Lifetime, Family Circle, The Sun , and many other publications. She lives in Northern California. This is her second novel.

Melinda Wade's Theater credits include: Natural Selection and Listeners (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival), The Erotica Project (New York Shakespeare Festival), Bodhisattvha Locksmith (Playwrights Horizons), Temp Odyssey (Summer Play Festival), String Fever (Theater J), Snakebit (Hartford Theatre Works), and The Imposter with Calista Flockhart .