Alice leads a typical middle-class life. That is, until her son, Albert, tries to kill himself. As Alice, her husband, Bruce, and adopted daughter, Enjoy, try to deal with their new reality, the once almost imperceptible fissures in the family widen ... and infidelity and murder slip through the cracks.

From the author of Shadow Self, Love and Wine, The Punishment and Under the Surface, comes a riveting read about the twists and turns of a family in crisis.