Book description
At thirty-five, Jane realises something rather disturbing. She
thought she had her life perfectly balanced: working from home as a a
freelance translator allows her to keep her financial independence,
spend time with her daughter and escape office politics. But somehow,
instead of combining a rewarding career with a satisfying
mother-daughter relationship, she's become an all-purpose dogsbody,
rushing from crisis to crisis and combining missing deadlines with
repairing the dishwasher.
Rupert is also leading the life he planned: a job in the city,
glamorous girlfriend, plenty of money. But he's beginning to have
doubts about the dull-but-sensible route he's chosen - and to realise
it's just possible he wants more out of life. So when he and Jane
meet, each escaping their day-to-day life with a stolen afternoon in
the peace of the cinema, they both start to wonder whether it's really
enough to settle for the next best thing ...
Sarah Long worked in publishing before giving it all up to move to
Paris with her husband and three children. She is the author of
And
What Do You Do?
and, following several years of the Parisian experience, she now lives
in London.
