Charlotte Street - Juliette Mead

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive...
Connie and Julian are wealthy, groomed and in control; Lucy and Mark are financially unstable and chaotic. Friends for years and absolute opposites, the Wiltshire couples bemoan their common plights of dwindling leisure time and failing youth. In a moment of pure impulse they buy a London flat together as a bolt hole from domesticity, never imagining how conveniently it would lend itself to extra-marital infidelities and deception...
By turns insightful, poignant and entertaining, Juliette Mead's new novel is about surviving infidelity rather than being destroyed by it: about recognising the impulse rather than condemning the desire.