When Elinor withdraws from Ted into an interior world of heartbreak and anger, Ted begins an affair with Gina, the nutritionist at their gym - a young woman with an oddball son who adores Ted.

Elinor Mackey has lived her life in perfect order: college law school successful corporate career marriage. But suddenly her world is falling apart. Now in her late 30s she's discovered that she and her podiatrist husband Ted can't have children. When Elinor withdraws from Ted into an interior world of heartbreak and anger Ted begins an affair with Gina the nutritionist at their gym - a young woman with an oddball son who adores Ted. Meanwhile Elinor falls in love with the oak tree in her front yard spreading out her sleeping bag to sleep under the stars. Lolly Winston's second novel looks beyond the manicured surface of suburbia to a world of loss longing lust and betrayal.