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Women's Fiction, Humor
A tale of two husbands, two wives, and the woman in between. It is a June day and the rain is lashing down as Emma and Andrew move into the house of their dreams in an affluent London suburb. Two doors down, a dejected Darren and Kelly are downsizing into their new home. The women are hitting it off straightaway whereas Andrew, a teacher and poet, and Darren, an alarm systems installer, are at loggerheads from the word go. When Emma and Kelly decide to take breaks away together – to a spa, a countryside retreat, the Scottish Highlands – their men feel abandoned. Their animosity reaches boiling point, with loyalty to their wives fully tested when Mrs Hall moves in as their in-between neighbour. But who exactly is this woman and what game is she playing? The wives return from a stay in Scotland to discover that a lot has changed and things can never be the same again. Are their marriages robust enough to survive?