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Mit das Blödeste, das einem mit Ende vierzig passieren kann: Eine überperfekte Nachbarin. Ein pubertierendes Kind. Jobfrust. Online-Dating. Der Blick in den Spiegel am Morgen danach. Und dann ist da auch noch dieser Scheißkerl, der einen fertigmachen will. Mit das Beste: Eine Nachbarin, die gerne kocht. Ein Kind, dem man das Gras wegkiffen kann. Ein netter Kollege. Frieden schließen mit sich selbst. Zwei neue Freundinnen. Und ein raffinierter Plan, wie man es dem Scheißkerl heimzahlen kann.

In the decade since Emma Dean’s husband died, she’s maintained a peaceful and organized life in her hometown of Wyndham Beach—until she finds evidence of her husband’s longtime affair. How, Emma wonders, can a man who’s been gone for ten years still break her heart? Still reeling from the betrayal, Emma must focus on the group of artists she’s invited to take up residence at the art center she founded, one of whom is secretly seeking refuge from her abusive ex.

Dublin, Ireland 1915. Eighteen-year-old May Gallagher is beautiful but restless, and longs for the freedom to live her own life, to decide her own destiny. Mollycoddled as the only remaining child of middle-class parents in the suburbs, she sneaks out to the theatre when she can. She is mesmerised by the captivating actor Peter Cullen, and wishes she could enjoy a more bohemian life. The Great War is taking all the boys away, and the promise that it will all be over by Christmas is ringing more hollow with each passing month.