Margot Livesey

Livesey here tells the deceptively simple love story of Zeke, a 29-year-old painter and carpenter with the face of a Raphaelite angel, and 37-year-old Verona, a pregnant radio host.

Abigail, an actress who believes that everyone has a book or writer who is the key to their life, proves the truth of that axiom as her relationship with her academic boyfriend falls apart after the arrival of an anonymous letter claiming she has been unfaithful, and her best friend and tenant Dara is unsettled by attempts by her distant father Cameron to reconcile.