Same As It Ever Was

Julia is planning her husband''s 57th birthday party. In the supermarket, shopping for the ingredients for his favourite crab cakes, she bumps into an older woman. An older woman who she hasn''t seen for twenty years, since meeting her threatened to destabilise her suburban life as a young mother to a new baby. And at the birthday party later that evening, that new baby, now a grown man, is acting strangely. Soon he reveals that he has broken the pattern of his usually ordered life and is expecting a baby of his own with a former student. Julia must deal with her impending empty nest and her son''s unexpected decision, while unable to forget the chaotic early days of his babyhood and the woman who arrived in her life - seeming at first to save it, before ultimately threatening its very foundations

Product details

• Authors: Claire Lombardo
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9781399608220
• ISBN: 978-1-399-60822-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Chicago, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Family & relationships, Fiction: general and literary