They were 'the five families' - the pleasant hospitable Frosts, the brash and sexy Cleggs, flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star, maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome, Michael Wickham and his perfect wife Marcelle. Old friends, their lives are interwoven in a comfortable pattern of school runs and Sunday golf, barbecues and shared holidays. Until Nina Cort returns to the cathedral city of her childhood. Rich sophisticated and newly widowed, Nina is an exotic thread in the pattern, whose intrusion reveals a web of hidden flaws. In the course of a year from which none will emerge unscathed, the five families and Nina discover that you can never truly know the fabric of other people's marriages. Perhaps not even of your own...
- ISBN10 0380722380
- ISBN13 9780380722389
- Publish Date 1 August 1995 (first published 1 July 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avon Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English