About the Book Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten-year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand -- and perhaps recapture -- the feelings that drew them together in the first place, their interior lives are sensitively and convincingly explored. Book Synopsis Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand--and perhaps recapture--the feelings that drew them together in the first place, their interior lives are sensitively and convincingly explored. About the Author Josephine Humphreys is the author of Dreams of Sleep , which won the 1985 Hemingway Foundation Award for a first work of fiction; of Rich in Love , made into a major motion picture; and of The Firemans Fair (all available from Penguin).