pbNational Bestseller - A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize - Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award - One of iTimei Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year pA iNew York Times Book Reviewi Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by iThe Guardiani, iSouthern Livingi, iNOWi Magazine, iCommonweali, iThe Washington Independent Review of Booksi, the iSan Francisco Chroniclei, iThe Globe and Maili, iBOMBi Magazine, and iThe National Post iCanada pThe Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began with iOutlinei, One of iNew York Times Book Reviewi's 10 Best Books of the YearbrbbrIn the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, and practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until