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Hailed as “one of the most thrilling writers at work today” (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis. In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she’s defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie’s aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her white middle-class upbringing, compound Damian’s itch for a bigger life catalyzed by the death of his activist father.

In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, consuming Grenfell Tower and many of the lives within it. Across town, an earlier spark has caught fire. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray. A table strewn with post-it reminders and old newspapers. And one Cornelius Winston Pitt—estranged husband, complicated dad, and Pitt family patriarch—takes his final breaths alone.

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her, but in the crooked walls of a narrow Victorian terrace, she begins to disappear. Michael, growing daily more accustomed to his commute, still loves Melissa but can’t quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Meanwhile, out in the suburbs, Stephanie is happy with Damian and their three children, but the death of Damian’s father has thrown him into crisis - or is it something, or someone, else?

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her three children are divided on whether she stays or goes. In the wake of their father's death, the imagined stability of the family begins to buckle. Meanwhile youngest daughter Melissa is forging a new life but has never let go of a love she lost. Michael too remains haunted by the failed perfection of their past, even within the sturdy walls of his marriage to the sparkling Nicole.

I thought I could get through this life and never feel love, because it hurt too much. Through difficult situations, I learned of God's love for me and spent years coming out of a pit of disappointments that opened up childhood wounds. God love's me too much to leave me with youthful pain and disappointments. He led me to His love which led to His promises and fulfillment.

Es ist nicht lange her, dass Melissa und Michael, von ihren Freunden liebevoll M & M genannt, das allseits bewunderte Paar waren. Doch jetzt ist ihre Ehe so einsturzgefährdet wie ihr Einfamilienhaus im Süden Londons. Melissa ist gerade Mutter geworden, aber statt Erfüllung empfindet sie Überforderung und sucht Trost bei den nigerianischen Eintöpfen und Zaubern ihrer Mutter. Das macht Michael, der sich ein aufregendes Leben ohne Kinder zurückwünscht, nur noch unzufriedener. Und da gibt es noch ein anderes Paar: Damian und Stephanie - und ihre drei Kinder.