I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed by this..I don't know what I expected from the 'blurb', maybe something a little more 'year in provence' meets aga-saga, rather than the bunch of pretty unlikeable characters that populated this novel . It wasn't the writing I didn't like , but most of the protagonists in this book were self-indulgent navel-gazers who acted without thought as to how they were affecting others,especially their children.... Not for me, this one I'm afraid..